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land-ship
[land n. 11.]
a. A wagon or other vehicle serving the same purpose on land as a ship on the sea; spec. = tank n.7
b. A ship erected and kept on land for training purposes.
[1627J. Taylor Armado sig. B1v, (heading) A Navy of Land Ships.] 1837Penny Mag. 22 July 276/1 The ox⁓carts of the Pampas..are quaintly termed by the natives, barcos de tierra, i.e., ‘land-ships’. 1869Cassell's Mag. Jan. 156/2 In some of the best schools of France and Belgium, it has long been a custom to erect a dry land-ship in the playground. 1907L. Osbourne Adventurer xiii. 159 The land-ship..was hardly more than an aluminium shell..requiring weeks of labor, possibly months, to make her habitable and ready. Ready? For what? To sail those vast and billowy plains? 1916Daily News 19 Sept. 1/2 The new land-ships or tanks did invaluable work. 1916Daily Mirror 22 Nov. 1/1 (caption) To-day we are able to publish the first photograph of one of his Majesty's land ships which have been making such successful cruises on the sea of mud on the Somme. 1934W. S. Churchill Gt. War II. xxxv. 519/1 The next day, the 20th [February 1915], I sent for Mr. Tennyson-d'Eyncourt..and convened a conference... As the result of it the Landships Committee of the Admiralty was formed. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Feb. 113/4 The original initiative in tank development, the so-called ‘landships’, was naval rather than military. |