line of battle

line of battle

English

Noun

line of battle (plural lines of battle)

1. (military) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver.
2. (naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.

Translations

position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver

Galician: liña de batalla f

Irish: líne chatha f

line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement

Irish: líne chatha f

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Romanian: (please verify) linie de bătaie f

See also

• ship of the line

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for line of battle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)