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battle wagon

noun

, Informal.
  1. a battleship.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of battle wagon1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

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Example Sentences

The charts had been made in that far future which the battle wagon had quitted forever and they revealed nothing about this sea.

The Ogrum were moving in to attack the warship, to deliver the last smashing blow against the stranded battle wagon!

Silently the little boats moved toward the bulk of the deserted battle wagon.

Modern ships carry ten times the pay-load on one-quarter of the power that this old battle-wagon uses.

"'Tis a pocket battle wagon we get, no less," he almost crooned.

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