"Q-ship" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, the home port of the British Q-ships, when they were first implemented in World War I.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Q-ships",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Q-ship (plural Q-ships)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, World War I: Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 956:",
          "text": "Q-ships were usually armed with one 4-inch and two 12-pounder guns. These were hidden behind hinged bulwarks, inside false superstructures and false deck cargoes, or under dummy lifeboats.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A merchant ship with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "armed merchantman"
        },
        {
          "word": "merchantman"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-Q-ship-en-noun-k7qZ9eUs",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "merchant ship",
          "merchant ship"
        ],
        [
          "concealed",
          "concealed"
        ],
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "lure",
          "lure"
        ],
        [
          "submarine",
          "submarine"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, historical) A merchant ship with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Q-boat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Q-ship"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Q-ship"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, the home port of the British Q-ships, when they were first implemented in World War I.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Q-ships",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Q-ship (plural Q-ships)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "armed merchantman"
    },
    {
      "word": "merchantman"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from toponyms",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English words containing Q not followed by U",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, World War I: Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 956:",
          "text": "Q-ships were usually armed with one 4-inch and two 12-pounder guns. These were hidden behind hinged bulwarks, inside false superstructures and false deck cargoes, or under dummy lifeboats.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A merchant ship with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "merchant ship",
          "merchant ship"
        ],
        [
          "concealed",
          "concealed"
        ],
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "lure",
          "lure"
        ],
        [
          "submarine",
          "submarine"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, historical) A merchant ship with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Q-ship"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Q-boat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Q-ship"
}