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  • noun military A type of warship equal in size or larger than a battleship, and of greater speed, but with less armour and fewer guns. Introduced ca. 1908 and forming the leading squadrons of WWI battle fleets but obsolescent by WWII, having been replaced by the "fast battleship" type.
  • noun In fiction, a warship of intermediate capability between cruisers and battleships

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Examples

  • You like your military SF to involve all-out warfare with battle-cruiser spaceships and weapons platforms, and the deeper the space the better.

    Land of the Dead by Thomas Harlan review 2009

  • Two of the glints grew brighter and larger and, sure enough, a battle-cruiser and a dropship came into view, surrounded by fighters, which took most of the damage.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • The battle-cruiser landed first, disgorging its contents of siege tanks and marines in full combat gear.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • Naval action occurred off the Dogger Bank between the British and German battle-cruiser squadrons.

    1915 2001

  • Worf, just suppose, for one wild minute, that some day you chance to meet a cloaked Ferengi battle-cruiser.

    DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

  • The MEKNES was en route from Southampton to Marseilles with 1,180 French naval officers and ratings, mostly reservists who had served aboard a French battle-cruiser until the fall of their country, then transferred to Britain.

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • He wrongly identified the ship as the DEUTSCHLAND, but the mistake was one of academic importance only: he rightly identified it as a German pocket battleship or battle-cruiser, 26,000-ton leviathans with 13-inch armour-plate and nine-inch and twelve 5.9 guns capable of delivering a 8,000-pound broadside in reply to his own puny 400 - and his light 100-pound shells could never hope to penetrate that massive armour anyway.

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • He fell victim to the same fallacies that underlay the creation of the battle-cruiser by the admirals of an earlier generation, sacrificing armour to speed only to discover that mere pace in battle was almost meaningless, unless matched by survivability.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • He fell victim to the same fallacies that underlay the creation of the battle-cruiser by the admirals of an earlier generation, sacrificing armour to speed only to discover that mere pace in battle was almost meaningless, unless matched by survivability.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • He fell victim to the same fallacies that underlay the creation of the battle-cruiser by the admirals of an earlier generation, sacrificing armour to speed only to discover that mere pace in battle was almost meaningless, unless matched by survivability.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

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