line of battle
English
Alternative forms
- line-of-battle
Etymology
Noun
line of battle (plural lines of battle)
- (military) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver.
- (naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.
Derived terms
- battleship
- battle-ship
- battle ship
- line-of-battle ship
- line-of-battle-ship
- line of battle ship
- liner
- line-ship
- line ship
- lineship
- ship of the line
- ship-of-the-line
- ship of the line of battle
- ship-of-the-line-of-battle
Related terms
- battleline
- battle-line
- battle line
- line battle
Translations
position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver
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line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement
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References
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “line of battle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)