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battleplane

American  
[bat-l-pleyn] / ˈbæt lˌpleɪn /

noun

  1. an airplane designed for combat; warplane.


Etymology

Origin of battleplane

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

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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

Early in the morning I came just in time to see a French battleplane attack a German above Fort Douaumont.

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

The formation was not broken even then, each battleplane continuing to cover its individual bombing plane with the shelter of its wings, so to speak, though at the same time fighting off the aggressors.

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

Their work in this quarter having been thoroughly accomplished the raiders now climbed higher, to rejoin the battleplane squadron hovering above, waiting to act once more as their armed escort.

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

T. Webb Jr. of Buffalo, a member of an American squadron which encountered a German battleplane while flying over the German lines.

From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

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