battlewagon

Example Sentences

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Instead of getting on a can or a carrier or a battlewagon, he had been left on the Reluctant, whose regular run was "from Tedium to Apathy and back."

From Time Magazine Archive

When long-range, land-based bombers and fighters really get into action, will the flat-top be as obsolete as the battlewagon?

From Time Magazine Archive

But even the Navy's crustiest battleship admirals concede that the day of the battlewagon is all but done.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now that the aircraft carrier has replaced the battlewagon as the Navy's capital ship, the carrier is beginning to grow.

From Time Magazine Archive

A change here, a shift there, and the stodgy freighter becomes the fast battlewagon.

From The Misplaced Battleship by Schoenherr, John