Definition of battleship
: a warship of the largest and most heavily armed and armored class
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Next to that remnant, at the corner of Spring and Mercer Streets, is the battleship-gray cast-iron building where Donald Judd’s studio remains preserved in all its raw brick-and-board glory.
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The iconic battleship served in World War II in the North Atlantic and South Pacific and was home to a crew of 2,500 troops.
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In 1948, the sisters traveled with their parents to Europe on the Queen Mary, a reconditioned World War II battleship.
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Food grows scarce, the men of the house are either wounded or away working for the Imperial Japanese Army and, when the Americans launch a vicious bombing campaign on Kure (whose large port housed Japan's major battleships), all hell breaks lose.
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With This The U.S. military brought this battleship back from the dead for one more war...
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With This The U.S. military brought this battleship back from the dead for one more war...
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A rusted fragment of the battleship USS Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, a woman’s munitions plant uniform and ration books all tell the complex story of life on the homefront in a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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In 2015, Vulcan teams located the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi and the historic bell of the British Navy’s HMS Hood.
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Origin and Etymology of battleship
short for line-of-battle ship
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: a large ship that has many big guns and is used in fighting wars
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: a large warship with heavy armor and large guns
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