Word.ws English Dictionary

line-of-battle ship

line-of-battle ship is the alternative form of line of battle ship.

Meaning of line of battle ship

Noun

line of battle ship (plural line of battle ships)

  1. (obsolete) A ship of the line or battleship.
    • I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre; it was commonly said that two masts, a bowsprit and a swivel gun would...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112

Forms of line-of-battle ship

pluralline-of-battle ships

Questions about line-of-battle ship

What is line-of-battle ship the alternative form of?
Line-of-battle ship is the alternative form of line of battle ship.

Words near line-of-battle ship in the dictionary

  1. line-heights
  2. line-item veto
  3. line-item vetoes
  4. line-item vetos
  5. line-loin merger
  6. line-of-battle ship
  7. line-of-sight
  8. line-out
  9. line-outs
  10. line-up
  11. line-ups

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: line-of-battle ship (page history and authors); line of battle ship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “line-of-battle ship.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/line-of-battle_ship. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.