sailing warship

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   a warship that was powered by sails and equipped with many heavy guns; not built after the middle of the 19th century

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Questions about sailing warship

What does sailing warship mean?

sailing warship means "a warship that was powered by sails and equipped with many heavy guns; not built after the middle of the 19th century".

Is sailing warship a common word?

sailing warship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.