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- noun Alternative spelling of
battle fleet .
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Examples
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They had built a battlefleet that cruised watchfully in space and waited for the moment it was called to come to the aid of a commercial ship.
Parlor Games Carol Reid 2010
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I'll guarantee that not one ship from the battlefleet will land here.
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Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering go to rendezvous with the Earth battlefleet before setting off to fight the tigerships.
Watch Buck Rogers battle Tiger Men of Mars in rare 1934 promotional film Paul 2009
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Two destroyers from Hawaii were unexpectedly added to Reagan battlefleet headed "for Persian Gulf."
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering go to rendezvous with the Earth battlefleet before setting off to fight the tigerships.
Archive 2009-08-01 Paul 2009
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Thekus reminded me of the fighting men of my battlefleet.
Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977
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An ancient Arkonide battlefleet then attacked the Earth, which was not under the influence of the time-field.
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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Did they have the slightest idea of what it meant to be exposed to the combined salvos of a battlefleet?
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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A Druuf battlefleet was blocking their way into deep space.
Ernst Ellert Returns Ernsting, Walter 1975
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He argued that ships from his fleet could reach southern waters within twenty-four hours if need be; it was needless and dangerous to draw so much of British naval strength away from convoy protection and the battlefleet into the static protection of the coast.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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