Examples
“Richard Turnbull sailed to brief fame and glory aboard the frigate _Quicksilver, _captured a substantial French prize -- a man-o'-war, no less, plus the treasure ship it was escorting -- then retired to the safety of commissioning, building, rigging, and outfitting Quicksilver House ... and a less fraught engagement, finding a suitable wife to complement the soft furnishings of his new, landlocked command.”
“It was on the island of Cephallonia, the place that travellers describe as looking like a dismasted man-o'-war, and the town where they landed was Lixouri.”
“From below it looked like a cross between a man-o'-war jellyfish and the world's biggest shark.”
“It never even occurred to him that a hospital ship could be used as a man-o'-war.”
“But the boat that was leaving the Bride of Abydos was not being handled in the man-o'-war fashion one would have expected of Ramsbottom.”
“Now, as she came up into the harbour, she could pass without question for a man-o'-war brig except that she flew the Royal Yacht Squadron burgee instead of a commission pendant.”
“She appeared to have a truncated funnel and the high fighting superstructure of a man-o'-war.”
“I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars 'style.”
“I will go without it," he resolved, and counted the hours to the sailing of the man-o'-war.”
“He passes away from the history of Lundy, but now a French man-o'-war and now a Spanish made raids up the Bristol Channel and upon Lundy, until Thomas Bushel held it for Charles I and established some measure of order.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘man-o'-war’.
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Minipax
sturm und drang, shock and awe, blitzkrieg, bellicose, parley, phalanx, grenadier, fusilier, man-o'-war, bayonet, company, platoon and 6 more...
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Hyphenated Actual Words
These kind of stun me whenever I see them. Language is just so cool.
chuck-will's-widow, will-o-the-wisp, saw-whet, topsy-turvy, linsey-woolsey, ne'er-do-well, gung-ho, so-so, cul-de-sac, fleur-de-lys, service-berry, major-domo and 33 more...
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O'-ho
tam-o'-shanter, jack-o'-lantern, man-o'-war, will-o'-the-wisp, light-o'-love, cat-o'-nine-tails, hop-o'-my-thumb, tom o' bedlam, bess o' bedlam, john o' groats, five o'clock shadow, o'dark thirty and 25 more...
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reesetee For all we know, you have, bilby! I haven't yet come across any Australian nicknames for birds (though I'm still searching). I say you make it official. Dec 12, 2007
bilby He's lucky that Australians didn't hand out bird nicknames, we would have called it Big Red Frig. Dec 12, 2007
reesetee That's what I'd like to know. Wikipedia claims it's because the nickname reflects its rakish lines, speed, and aerial piracy of other birds. I'd like to think this bulging red thing has something to do with it, too. Dec 12, 2007
chained_bear Now really! Why on God's green earth does something called a magnificent frigatebird need a nickname?! Dec 12, 2007
reesetee Folk name for the Magnificent Frigatebird. Dec 11, 2007