Type of battleship with a primary battery of large, uniform-caliber guns, to distinguish them from earlier mixed caliber battleships.
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Examples for "dreadnought"
Examples for "dreadnought"
1Some of her first-class cruisers, and one formidable dreadnought had been sunk.
2The dreadnought began her turn, and fresh alarms whooped even as she swung.
3Jan. 11-Reportfrom Vienna that French dreadnought Courbet has been sunk.
4Dec. 30-Frenchsubmarine torpedoes Austrian dreadnought Viribus Unitis, but fails to sink her.
5Nothing in the galaxy could stand up to the energy-range fire of a dreadnought.
1They were the Dreadnought battleships of their own time and place and people.
2At the time, the backbone of the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet consisted of dozens of dreadnought battleships.
3For three hours and a half Jellicoe, with his twenty-four dreadnought battleships, had been racing south to reach the scene of action.
4It had a ram-shaped bow like a Dreadnought battleship and, adjoining it, there were smaller outcrops of rock on the seaward ice-cliffs.
5Its history is rich, with 216 known shipwrecks, including that of a 1906 Dreadnought battleship, surrounding its shores.
Translations for dreadnought battleship