battlewagon

noun — 2 senses

battlewagon

noun

Etymology From battle + wagon.

1

Government, Military, Politics, War A heavily armed combat vehicle; a tank.

A four-wheeled battlewagon recovered from an Early Dynastic IIIA tomb in Kish has axles 90 cm long2006, Nic Fields with Brian Delf, Bronze Age War Chariots, page 11:
“Individuals or groups of people who have trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns, known as ‘technicals,’ should bring those battlewagons to Mogadishu’s old port,” he said.2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”, in New York Times:

2

Government, Military, Nautical, Politics, Transport, War A battleship.

It made no difference that the battlewagon had been commissioned in 1921 and the DE in 1944, or that the battleship's skipper was a regular captain2000, Edward P. Stafford, Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343, page 281:

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