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Dreadnaught

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Dread´naught`
n.1.A fearless person.
2.Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
3.A dreadnought, in either sense.
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Noun1.Dreadnaughtdreadnaught - battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber
dreadnought
battleship, battlewagon - large and heavily armoured warship


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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 color of a three days' old Congo baby.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Much there was which Tarzan could make Tantor understand, and though the small talk of the wild was beyond the great, gray dreadnaught of the jungle, he stood with blinking eyes and gently swaying trunk as though drinking in every word of it with keenest appreciation.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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