Battleship

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bat⋅tle⋅ship

[bat-l-ship]

–noun

1.	any of a class of warships that are the most heavily armored and are equipped with the most powerful armament.

2.	ship of the line.

Origin:
1785–95, Americanism; battle ¹ + ship

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bat·tle·ship (bāt'l-shĭp')

n. Any one of a class of warships of the largest size, carrying the greatest number of weapons and clad with the heaviest armor. Also called battlewagon.

[Short for line-of-battle ship.]

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battleship

1794, shortened from line-of-battle ship (1705), one large enough to take part in a main attack (formerly one of 74-plus guns). Battleship-gray as a color is attested from 1916. Fighter and bomber airplanes in World War I newspaper articles were sometimes called battleplanes, but it did not catch on.

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