Definition of "war-ship" []

• A ship built or armed for use in war; a vessel for war. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Marines, and was lost on the Dogger Bank in the war-ship"
• "I knew there was nothing in them and no bottom to the whole story; and the drums and shouts and cries from Tanugamanono and the town keeping up an all night corybantic chorus in the moonlight — the moon rose late — and the search-light of the war-ship in the harbour making a jewel of brightness as it lit up the bay of"
• "Straits Settlements, instead of representing to the Sultan the misconduct, actual or supposed, of his officers, sent a war-ship to seize and punish them."