Battle wagon
a battleship.
Historical Examples
The Chief looked out of the side port “Man, it looks like a battle wagon.”
First on the Moon Jeff Sutton
The charts had been made in that far future which the battle wagon had quitted forever and they revealed nothing about this sea.
The Lost Warship Robert Moore Williams
The boy who had been known as “Stinky” in their days at Annapolis was boss of a battle wagon.
The Lost Warship Robert Moore Williams
Holding a plumb line at 350 miles per hour, she dropped upon the battle wagon below.
A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. Rutherford G. Montgomery
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