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dreadnaught

[ UK /dɹˈɛdnɔːt/ ]
NOUN
  1. battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber

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  • As an aside, battleship armor used by dreadnaught and super dreadnaught battleships is referred to as all or nothing protection. Matthew Yglesias » Gulf Stability and the New Iraq
  • Rising tensions over the South China Sea disturbingly recall the naval race between Britain and Germany during the dreadnaught era that played a key role in triggering World War I. Eric Margolis: The Road to War in Asia
  • Most of the damage was to the older ships, from galleys to galleons and frigates to pre-dreadnaught steamers.
  • The player will often see the old Dreadnaught class corvette acting as escort to a convoy.
  • Mercedes To line this car up on an empty highway and roll on the throttle is to experience a unique, Newtonian effervescence, a momentary microgravity when the 4,800-pound dreadnaught around you disappears and you float in a kind of parabolic apogee of pleasure. Olympian Acceleration
  • It's the only "dreadnaught" (the prototype of the modern battleship) type of battleship surviving, and is also the only surviving battleship that fought in both WW I and WW II. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. Archive 2010-05-01
  • Peter, GREAT job but if you†™ re going to include 1701-J, the dreadnaught is a must as well. The Evolution of the USS Enterprise | /Film
  • The blunders were failure to build a fleet of heavy 4 engine bombers and choosing to build the super dreadnaught battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz instead of Uboats. Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Industrial Complex
  • A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaught—bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jedi—has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. Archive 2010-01-01
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