| 单词 | pocket battleship |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspocket battleship d. Of a warship: armoured and equipped as the class named, but smaller in size. Chiefly in pocket battleship. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > other types of war vessel bastard1578 pre-Dreadnought1908 pocket1929 hunter-killer1948 1929 Times 14 Feb. 10/3 No doubt the Admiralty is considering the importance of the problem presented by the projected German ‘pocket battleship’. 1931 Nevada State Jrnl. 17 Oct. 1/1 A resolution asking the [German] government to suspent [sic] work on the construction of ‘pocket cruisers’ and to use the money thus saved to feed the children of the poor. 1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 14 May 89 Some of the latest and fastest motor launches..are known as ‘pocket destroyers’. 1951 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 632/1 Aided by George (now Sir George) Binney, three ‘pocket freighters’ were rapidly built in British shipyards. 1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies ii. 40 We heard the sound of heavy guns: a raider or a pocket battleship, we thought. 2001 Atlantic Monthly (Nexis) 1 June 37 Cirrus would have loved to race right into the development of an inexpensive ‘pocket jet’, but it didn't have the capital. < as lemmas |
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