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n. Any one of a class of warships of the largest size, carrying the greatest number of weapons and clad with the heaviest armor. Also called battlewagon.

n. Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.

n. Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.

n. A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)

An armor-plated warship built of steel and heavily armed, generally having over ten thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to combat the heaviest enemy ships in line of battle; the most heavily armed and armored class of warship at any given time.

n. A ship of war; specifically, a powerful war-ship designed to fight in the line of battle; in recent use, a heavily armored and armed sea-going war-ship intended for the line of battle.

n. large and heavily armoured warship

"Obama gets 3 things thrown at him and his battleship is already sinking! lmao."

war vessel    warship    combat ship   

monitor    corvette    cruiser    aircraft carrier    dreadnought    gunboat    frigate    destroyer    sloop   

battlecruiser   

dreadnought    pocket battleship    dreadnaught   

battleship grey    heavy battleship    pocket battleship    super battleship    fast battleship    battleship gray    light battleship   

predreadnought    dreadnought    superdreadnought    liner   

trawler    warship    submarine    tanker    freighter    corvettes    destroyer    airship    flagship    liner