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Definition of Pocket battleship
1. Noun. A small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930).
Definition of Pocket battleship
1. Noun. (nautical) Any of a class of German cruisers, having guns normally found on a battleship, operated during World War II; a battlecruiser ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Battleship
Literary usage of Pocket battleship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"The Fight over pocket battleship "A" Sharp friction also existed among the
ministers of ... pocket battleship ..."
2. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"The Fight over pocket battleship "A" Sharp friction also existed among the
ministers of ... pocket battleship ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee last December, nor even in the subsequent
suicide of the pocket battleship's commander, Captain Hans Langsdorff. ..."
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