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Definition of Armour-clad
1. Adjective. Covered with heavy steel. "Armor-plated vehicles"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armour-clad
Literary usage of Armour-clad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"armour-clad WHALES AMONG the many wonderful palaeontological discoveries that
have startled the scientific world during the last few years, none, perhaps, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The return gives the names of 48 armour-clad vessels, ... The whole of the
armour-clad ships of the broadside class completed previous to 1870 have no ..."
3. The Story of the Guns by Sir James Emerson Tennent (1864)
"... PROJECTILES PENETRATE armour-clad SHIPS. IN the midst of the elation over the
successful resistance of iron ships to the .most powerful artillery, ..."
4. The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe: Or, How the by James Dunwody Bulloch (1884)
"Conversion of the Fingal into the armour-clad Atlanta.—Her engagement with and
capture by two United States ' Monitors.'— Return to England. ..."
5. Engineering Facts and Figures by Andrew Betts Brown (1866)
"On the Construction of armour-clad Ships of War. By Rear-Admiral Sir Edward
Belcher, CB—"Sir Edward Belcher commenced by remarking that no reasonable ..."
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