Dreadnaught

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of dreadnought. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

  2. 2
    battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber wordnet

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"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."

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