battleplane

American  

[bat-l-playn] / ˈbæt lˌpleɪn /

noun

1. an airplane designed for combat; warplane.

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Etymology

Origin of battleplane

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

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Example Sentences

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battleplane

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It chanced that some question arose, bringing out quite a warm discussion concerning a certain appliance which Harry was trying out on his battleplane, and of which a friend was the inventor.

From Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold by Charles Amory Beach

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

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

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.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

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

From An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916 by Oswald Boelcke

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