battleplane

American  

[bat-l-pleyn] / 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

Example Sentences

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

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 Beach, Charles Amory

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 Boelcke, Oswald

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 Bott, Alan

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 Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)