pre-dreadnought

English

Etymology

pre- + dreadnought

Noun

pre-dreadnought (plural pre-dreadnoughts)

  1. A late 19th-century or early 20th-century battleship with fewer big guns than lesser guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by the dreadnought type of battleship.

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