| 单词 | line of battleship |
| 释义 | > as lemmasline of battleship 12. line of battle: the position of troops drawn up in battle array in their usual order; the line or arrangement formed by ships of war in an engagement. Hence line-of-battle ship, a ship of sufficient size to take part in a main attack; formerly, one of 74 guns and upward; also irregularly line of battleship. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > battle array arraya1375 ordinancec1385 fielda1393 front1487 stight1489 order of battle?1548 battle array1552 battle1577 battle-rayc1600 battalia1613 war1667 line of battle1695 ORBAT1975 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > formations of ships battalia1613 line of battle1695 line1704 column1805 open order1805 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > battleship line-of-battle ship1695 battleship1794 liner1829 dreadnought1906 battle-wagon1926 1695 J. Addison To the King in Misc. Wks. (1726) I. 11 Spain's numerous Fleet..Cou'd scarce a longer Line of battel boast. 1705 Admiralty Sec. In-Lett. 5249 (P.R.O.) The capital ships and line-of-battle ships are often laid up in the winter. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4700/1 Eighteen Men of War, all of the Line of Battel. 1745 Observ. conc. Navy 48 It would be of great use on board every Line of Battle ship. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Aav In the line, or order of battle, all the ships..are close-hauled. 1800 Nelson in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 121 I saw the Alexander in chase of a line of battle ship. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iii. 88 One of the French line of battle ships. 1842 Duke of Wellington Suppl. Despatches (1863) X. 516 The army..made up in the form of what is called ‘a line of battle.’ 1863 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 174 The typical vessel—the two-decker line-of-battle ship, say of eighty guns. 1894 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Jan. 50/1 A heavily armoured line-of-battleship. a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) vi. 196 Our armour-clads were on the scantling of line-of-battle ships, but with the addition of considerable beam or width. 1899 R. Routledge Discov. 19th Cent. (ed. 13) 167 Before the close of 1894, the British navy possessed no fewer than eight of the largest armoured line of battle-ships. < as lemmas |
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