[Ads-l] antedating "battle-wagon"

[Jonathan Lighter]

'Battleship': OED 1927

1908 S. F. Examiner (May 14) 4 [Newspapers.com]: I would like to say a word
for our ship, the Georgia. ...All the boys are willing to show and explain
everything about the battle-wagon."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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