Meanings
plural dreadnaughts
- alternativeAlternative spelling of dreadnought.
Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounbattleship that has big guns all of the same caliber
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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