Ironclad

Definitions

1. A ship, vessel, or vehicle with a covering of iron, steel, or (loosely) any other tough metal.
2. An armor-plated warship, (especially) one preceding the invention of harveyized steel.
3. A wooden warehouse with an outer skin of corrugated metal.

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Examples

“He turned again to the nearest land⟳ ironclad, advancing now obliquely to him and not three hundred yards away, and then scrambled the ground over which he must retreat if he was not to be captured.”

“About a couple of miles out lay⟳ an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like⟳ a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.”

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