dreadnaught

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The special feature of the "M" boats, of which the M-1 was the first, consists in the fact that they are the only submarines which are equipped with a regular 12-inch dreadnaught gun.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Fiumicino, a seaport near Rome, he boarded the dreadnaught Conte di Cavour amid an ovation scarcely to be described.

From Time Magazine Archive

And on the blueprint horizon�but within sight �is the U.S.'s first modern heavy: T-43, a dreadnaught whose details are top secret.

From Time Magazine Archive

To these historic engagements, the Battle of 1941 bears only such resemblances as are dictated by laws of naval warfare which not even the gap between trireme and dreadnaught can change.

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I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes and statute-makers, soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street-sweep, cook, counselor and clerk.

From Teaching the Child Patriotism by Clarke, Kate Upson