rocket ship
- a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
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Origin of rocket ship
First recorded in 1925–30
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Historical Examples of rocket ship
He flung open the outer door of the rocket-ship, and Sylva went to him.
InvasionWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
From here they could see beneath the bows of the rocket-ship.
InvasionWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
They had been carried into the rocket-ship fourteen hours and more before.
InvasionWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
The three leaders reached the first rocket-ship, and their green beams shot out.
When the Sleepers WokeArthur Leo Zagat
But I was particularly interested in the munitions plants and the rocket-ship shops.
Armageddon--2419 A.D.Philip Francis Nowlan