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Another word for warship

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warship

n.

fighting ship, armored vessel, gunboat, man-of-war, frigate, ship-of-the-line; see also boat, ship.

Warships include: battleship, cruiser, destroyer, frigate, guided-missile frigate, guided-missile destroyer, missile cruiser, nuclear submarine, U-boat, attack submarine, minesweeper, destroyer escort, submarine, submarine chaser, aircraft carrier, escort carrier, corvette, torpedo boat, PT-boat, raider, dreadnought, superdreadnought, capital ship, flagship, landing ship, LST, LSM, LCI, LCP, LCT.

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The American warship "Nipsic" was cast upon the beach, but was afterwards floated and saved.
The British warship "Calliope" (Captain Pearson) was in the harbour, but succeeded in getting up steam and, standing out to sea, escaped destruction.
In the spring it is visited by a great number of boats, to protect which a small Hellenic warship has sometimes been despatched.
The term is also used of structures resembling these articles, especially of the framework of booms, spars and netting forming a protection for a warship against torpedo attack.
Early in his presidency, in a 1953 address that would become known as his "Cross of Iron" speech, he declared, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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