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n. a government ship that is available for waging war [syn: war vessel , combat ship ]

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Warship is a long-running yearly publication covering the design, development, and service history of combat ships. It is published by Conway Publishing in the United Kingdom and the United States Naval Institute Press in North America.

Usage examples of warship.

There were four cruiser analogs, a warship analog, a skip carrier, and twenty frigates.

The flagship ballista and the accompanying human warships closed in on their fateful confrontation, reaching the line that would trigger the senseless slaughter of millions of humans inside the Bridge.

Valliardi Transfer, the Belter government first attempted to send manned warships into Earth orbit.

He must not allow a maniple of warships to fall into the hands of this insane rebellious Designate.

We have been able to find no trace whatever of the planet Medon, or of any one of the twenty one warships investing it at the time of its disappearance.

Without heavy guns, without adequate torpedoes, and with no hope of reinforcements from anywhere, these fragile ships must try to harass and heckle and outguess a massive collection of warships and cruisers any one of which had more fire power than what the Americans together could muster.

Each hull was dominated by a gigantic catapultnot the small petrary that some warships carried, but a massive siege engine of the type that normally was constructed to breach a walled town or fortress.

THE UNEXPECTED attack began, a handful of surface-based warships and armored kindjals rose from the polymerized jungle canopy to join the defense in space.

As a demonstration of patriotism large sums of money were voted annually for the purpose of building warships, and the patriotic common man paid the taxes gladly with a dream of irresistible naval predominance to sweeten the payment.

Now at last he could see what battle stations really looked like: the piercing notes of the trumpets drawing men from every corner of Misenum, the rowboats ferrying the first of the sailors out to the huge triremes and quadriremes, the advance guard already boarding the warships and swarming over the decks, the high masts being raised, the oars readied.

Now at last he could see what battle-stations really looked like: the piercing notes of the trumpets drawing men from every corner of Misenum, the rowing boats ferrying the first of the sailors out to the huge quadriremes, the advance guard already boarding the warships and swarming over the decks, the high masts being raised, the oars readied.

If the two Japanese warships were still in the same area as Quinton had described, they should soon be in view.

Others were fifty-year-old crimson-red diplomatic cruisers, and warships recently recommissioned from mothballed fleets.

In a way, the Mighty Ten were really the Mighty Eleven, with the oldest warship being broken, resmelted, and recycled to provide the materials for the warship under construction.

Fortunately they encountered an American warship, which picked them up and took them to Sackets Harbor, New York.