Battlewagon
battlewagon
noun
a battleship (1920s+ navy)
a police patrol wagon (1920s+ underworld)
historical examples
he was decorated again and given the battlewagon of an ailing four-striper.
the adventurer cyril m. kornbluth
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a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of waterloo. partic-p-tion in such hostile encounters or engagements: wounds received in battle. a fight between two persons or animals: ordering a trial by battle to settle the dispute. any conflict or struggle: a battle for control of the senate. archaic. a battalion. to […]
- Battologize
to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively. (of writing or speaking) to repeat words, phrases, etc., to an excessive and tiresome degree.
- Battologist
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- Battue
hunting. the beating or driving of game from cover toward a stationary hunter. a hunt or hunting party using this method of securing game. undiscriminating slaughter of defenseless or unresisting crowds. historical examples having had a long morning’s ride, our first day’s battue was closed early. rambles in the islands of corsica and sardinia thomas […]
- Battuta
a beat. a measure.