battlewagon
battlewagon noun: a heavily armed combat vehicle; a tank.
Noun
battlewagon (plural battlewagons)
- A heavily armed combat vehicle; a tank.
- A four-wheeled battlewagon recovered from an Early Dynastic IIIA tomb in Kish has axles 90 cm long2006, Nic Fields with Brian Delf, Bronze Age War Chariots, page 11
- “Individuals or groups of people who have trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns, known as ‘technicals,’ should bring those battlewagons to Mogadishu’s old port,” he said.2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”, in New York Times
- A battleship.
- ‘How’d you like the battle-wagons?’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 160
- It made no difference that the battlewagon had been commissioned in 1921 and the DE in 1944, or that the battleship's skipper was a regular captain2000, Edward P. Stafford, Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343, page 281
Forms of battlewagon
| plural | battlewagons |
|---|---|
| alternative form | battle wagon |
| alternative form | battlewaggon |
| alternative form | battle waggon |
Origin of battlewagon
From battle + wagon.
Questions about battlewagon
- What does battlewagon mean?
- Battlewagon means a heavily armed combat vehicle; a tank.
- What part of speech is battlewagon?
- Battlewagon is a noun.
- What is the plural of battlewagon?
- The plural of battlewagon is battlewagons.
Words near battlewagon in the dictionary
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