"torpedo boom" meaning in English

See torpedo boom in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: torpedo booms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} torpedo boom (plural torpedo booms)
  1. (historical) A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-torpedo_boom-en-noun-QOZdHlqy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for torpedo boom meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "torpedo booms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "torpedo boom (plural torpedo booms)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end."
      ],
      "id": "en-torpedo_boom-en-noun-QOZdHlqy",
      "links": [
        [
          "spar",
          "spar"
        ],
        [
          "man-of-war",
          "man-of-war"
        ],
        [
          "torpedo",
          "torpedo"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "torpedo boom"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "torpedo booms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "torpedo boom (plural torpedo booms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "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 with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spar",
          "spar"
        ],
        [
          "man-of-war",
          "man-of-war"
        ],
        [
          "torpedo",
          "torpedo"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "torpedo boom"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.