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  • adjective Fit for service in battle.

Etymologies

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battle +‎ -worthy

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Examples

  • These werent as battleworthy as the equipment of Roman legions but they were a major step up from kitchen utensils.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These werent as battleworthy as the equipment of Roman legions but they were a major step up from kitchen utensils.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These werent as battleworthy as the equipment of Roman legions but they were a major step up from kitchen utensils.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These werent as battleworthy as the equipment of Roman legions but they were a major step up from kitchen utensils.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • At about the same moment, the consuls Gellius and Clodianus left Rome to pick up their troops from Capua, Quintus Arrius the ex-praetor having told the Senate that the four legions of new soldiers assembled in Capua were as good as they were ever going to be; he could not guarantee that they were battleworthy, but he hoped they were.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • The men below, Conan judged, were even less battleworthy than the recruits of the Second Company had been.

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

  • Harper had taken it upon himself to make the guns battleworthy.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

  • Regret to report it is considered opinion Crocker, Dempsey and myself that 51st Division is at present not—NOT—battleworthy Montgomery cabled to Brooke in July.

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

  • Regret to report it is considered opinion Crocker, Dempsey and myself that 51st Division is at present not—NOT—battleworthy Montgomery cabled to Brooke in July.

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

  • Regret to report it is considered opinion Crocker, Dempsey and myself that 51st Division is at present not—NOT—battleworthy Montgomery cabled to Brooke in July.

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

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