Difference between ship and ironclad
Definitions
noun
- a vessel that carries passengers or freight
verb
- place on board a ship
- travel by ship
- go on board
- hire for work on a ship
- transport commercially
Examples
While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the
You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival?
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
Definitions
noun
- a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor
adjective
- sheathed in iron plates for protection
- inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable
Examples
The sides of the ships are protected by iron plating of eight-inch thickness amidships, which is an inch more of iron than the armour possessed by the majority of our masted sea-going ironclads, many of which are twice or thrice the size of the _Cyclops_ and her sister-ships.
Users of finished-steel products complain of severe supply constraints and of enforced price increases amid contracts that are not as ironclad as they thought.
But in fact what the U.S. really wants is an ironclad 100 percent guarantee that no American will ever be brought before that international body.
