Dreadnoughts

Another feature of the larger ships, some of them the biggest that had yet been built for the line of battle, the "Dreadnoughts" of their day, was that wooden castles or towers had been erected on their upper decks, and on these structures were mounted various specimens of a rude primitive substitute for artillery, ballistæ, catapults, and the like, engines for discharging by mechanical means huge darts or heavy stones.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

At this crisis in the history of the two-power standard a wave of enthusiasm started in the colonies, resulting in the offer of "Dreadnoughts" from New Zealand and elsewhere; and the British government called an Imperial Conference to consider the whole question afresh.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

And greater than the builders of "Dreadnoughts" were those who "with hearts girt round with oak and triple brass" were the first to trust their frail barques to "the cruel sea."

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

You do not find the pitman, the dustman, or the bargee puling for bayonet exercise to make them hard, and if our nervous gentlemen were all serving the State in those capacities, they might even approach their addition sums in "Dreadnoughts" without a tremor.

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

Germany, but English Liberalism is itself a product of the English temperament, and however it may sigh, by individuals, for a better understanding between the two peoples, in the mass, it is a part of the national purpose and a phase of the national mind and is driven relentlessly to the rivets and the hammering, the "Dreadnoughts" in being and that mightier Dreadnought yet to be, the Anglo-Saxon

The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890

The Bing brothers, with the world's largest toy factory, produced miniature Dreadnoughts flying union flags until the first world war began.

First toys, then models and now works of art 2010

The Liberal Government 1906-16 essentially used the welfare state to facilitate rearmament with Dreadnoughts ...

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Dreadnoughts, when fully siege-fitted, are valued at approximately 2.5 billion isk.

East of Even 2006

Conan Doyle wrote, "We can pass the eight Dreadnoughts, if we are sure of the eight Shackletons."

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

So he constantly dubbed us the Dreadnoughts and we were known that for a long time.

Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant 1995