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- noun Plural form of
ironclad .
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Examples
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While this was being done, he observed that another smack -- one of the so-called "ironclads" -- was sailing so as to cross the bows of his vessel.
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There were besides these a few other so-called ironclads near the city; but they took no part in the fight in the bay, and little, if any, in the operations before the fall of
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. 1877
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NEW YORK — For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation's most storied warships – sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines.
New $25M Museum To Display Navy Yard's 200-Year History AP 2011
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NEW YORK — For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation's most storied warships – sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines.
New $25M Museum To Display Navy Yard's 200-Year History AP 2011
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If they have ironclads, why don't they have trains?
i should have read your letters kenscholes 2009
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NEW YORK — For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation's most storied warships – sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines.
New $25M Museum To Display Navy Yard's 200-Year History AP 2011
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NEW YORK — For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation's most storied warships – sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines.
New $25M Museum To Display Navy Yard's 200-Year History AP 2011
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The gloves are coming off and this battle of ironclads, unlike the Monitor and the Merrimack, is guaranteed to result in more self-inflicted harm than damage to the enemy.
Will Durst: Weasel Boy vs. Plastic Man Will Durst 2011
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Wells and his land ironclads for publication following some stylistic changes!
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But Alek thinks those two ironclads are headed for Constantinople, just like us!
Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010
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