Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the civil war in the United States, a gunboat protected by very light plating of metal, used on the western rivers.
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- adjective
Clad in tin or tin-coated metal. - noun historical A lightly armored river steamer used in the US Civil War.
Etymologies
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tin + clad
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Examples
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The survivors rounded the bend easily enough, with the one casualtybeing my ship (damned tinclad, anyway!).
Ironclad Action: Get the Lousiana! at Cold Wars 2010 « Third Point of Singularity 2010
hernesheir commented on the word tinclad
A boat.
February 7, 2013