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Brewer's: Man-of-War
(A). A Government fighting-ship. The term is not now often used.
“Frank went to the captain and told him that Tom had given him leave to have the man-of-war if he could get it.” —
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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