| 单词 | battle-wagon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbattle-wagon battle-wagon n. (also battle-waggon) slang (originally U.S.) (a) a battleship; (b) (see quot. 1926); (c) an armed or armoured vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > for coal battle-wagon1926 coal wagon1995 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > battleship line-of-battle ship1695 battleship1794 liner1829 dreadnought1906 battle-wagon1926 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured armoured vehicle1900 battle-wagon1926 1926 Amer. Speech 1 650/2 Battle wagon, an iron coal car. 1927 Amer. Speech 3 452 Battle wagon, warship. 1938 Newsweek 14 Nov. 11/2 The Navy had sent out bids..for three new 35,000-ton battlewagons. 1945 Penguin New Writing 23 10 But the battle-wagon—her great guns swing up in a silent arc. 1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches ii. ii. 200 The ‘battlewagon’..was a new, cut-down Ford station waggon... It was fitted with mountings for two machine guns in front and two behind. < as lemmas |
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