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battleplane

[ bat-l-pleyn ]

noun

  1. an airplane designed for combat; warplane.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of battleplane1

First recorded in 1910–15; battle 1 + plane 1
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Example Sentences

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Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship.

But the Fokkers were satisfactorily dealt with by the de Haviland and the F.E.8. pusher scouts and the F.E. "battleplane," as the newspapers of the period delighted to call it.

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Early in the morning I came just in time to see a French battleplane attack a German above Fort Douaumont.

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Here we have gathered samples of about everything that our knowledge of aviation has developed: Two airplane squadrons and one battleplane division.

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On the morning of November 10, 1916, a German battleplane attacked two British biplanes between Nieuport and Dunkirk.

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