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  • noun Plural form of battlewagon.

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Examples

  • In the harbors across the country were the famed mothballed "battlewagons" of World War II, the Missouri, the New Jersey, the North Carolina, and the Iowa, all open for public inspection.

    Kitten on the Keyboard 2009

  • Sarah Palin reads Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, because the capsule summaries of Baen Books yield the same insights as foreign policy briefs from the Heritage Foundation, but with more talking battlewagons.

    I mean, SPECIFICALLY 2008

  • Sarah Palin reads Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, because the capsule summaries of Baen Books yield the same insights as foreign policy briefs from the Heritage Foundation, but with more talking battlewagons.

    October 2008 2008

  • You know, those New Mexico and California class battlewagons could dish out a world of hurt with twelve fourteen inchers.

    Friday! May 29 – The Bleat. 2009

  • It seemed like you could just reach up and catch one, plus the battlewagons Allied ships that were sitting offshore were throwing up star shells.

    Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

  • A major offensive involving 300 Sudanese government battlewagons intended to clear space for Chinese oil exploration in Darfur's far north has begun, according to rebel commanders who have come under attack.

    Georgia, George Bush and Oil 2008

  • What to make of the battlewagons spotted by theDarter and theDace ?

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • Salvaged from the wreckage of Pearl Harbor and equipped with modern radar and fire control, the old battlewagons would gain sweet revenge.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • What to make of the battlewagons spotted by theDarter and theDace ?

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • Salvaged from the wreckage of Pearl Harbor and equipped with modern radar and fire control, the old battlewagons would gain sweet revenge.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

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