battlewagon

English

Etymology

battle +‎ wagon

Noun

battlewagon (plural battlewagons)

1. (military) A heavily-armed combat vehicle.
   • 2006, Nic Fields with Brian Delf, Bronze Age War Chariots, page 11:

     A four-wheeled battlewagon recovered from an Early Dynastic IIIA tomb in Kish has axles 90 cm long

   • 2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “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.

   1. (nautical) A battleship.
      • 2000, Edward P. Stafford, Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343, page 281:

        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 captain

Alternative forms

• battle wagon
• battlewaggon
• battle waggon