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floating fortress
noun as in battleship
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The floating fortress attacked the Cumberland, ramming that vessel, and breaking a great hole in its side.
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The Queen Elizabeth was there, looking for all the world like a floating fortress.
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Looked at in another way, we may say that a battleship is a floating fortress.
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I was quite bewildered as I ran through the passages and endless nooks of this floating fortress.
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All the men swung their hammocks on board their floating fortress, and were quite secure from any intrusion of the savages.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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