Meaning of Ironclad | Babel Free

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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