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battlewagon en · NOUN

Etymology

From battle + wagon.

Meanings

1. A heavily armed combat vehicle; a tank.
   • “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 four-wheeled battlewagon recovered from an Early Dynastic IIIA tomb in Kish has axles 90 cm long 2006, Nic Fields with Brian Delf, Bronze Age War Chariots, page 11:
2. (informal) A battleship.
   • 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 captain 2000, Edward P. Stafford, Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343, page 281:
   • ‘How’d you like the battle-wagons?’ 1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 160:

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