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Definition of Armoured car

1. Noun. An armor-plated truck with strong doors and locks used to transport money or valuables. "The paintings were delivered to the museum in an air-conditioned armored car"

2. Noun. A military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun).

Definition of Armoured car

1. Noun. An armoured truck for transporting valuables. ¹

2. Noun. An automobile equipped with armour to protect important passengers. ¹

3. Noun. (military) A small wheeled armoured fighting vehicle. ¹

4. Noun. (law enforcement) An armoured vehicle resistant to small arms fire. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Armoured Car

armorlike armors armorsmith armorsmithing armorsmiths armory armour armour'd armour-clad armour-plated

armour plate armour plating armourbearer armourbearers armoured armoured car (current term) armoured combat vehicle armoured combat vehicles armoured fighting vehicle armoured personnel carrier

armoured personnel carriers armoured truck armoured vehicle armourer armourers armourial armouries armouring armourings armourist

Literary usage of Armoured car

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brave Belgians by Camille Buffin (1918)
"7 armoured car attached to the Cavalry Division. I will begin by congratulating those who invented and thought out this engine of warfare. ..."

2. The Adventures of Dunsterforce by Dunsterville, Lionel Charles, 1865- (1920)
"... one of his Cossack squadrons supported by a British armoured car. The party passed over a bridge which was held by a strong detachment of the Red Army, ..."

3. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair (1915)
"He is the commander and the owner of an armoured car, one of the unit of five volunteer armoured cars. I do not know whether he was happy or unhappy when ..."

4. Tanks, 1914-1918: The Log-book of a Pioneer by Albert Gerald Stern (1919)
"In reply the First Lord wishes me to say that in his opinion an armoured car would be of little use to this unit, and that it would be much better if you ..."

5. The Navy Everywhere by Conrad Cato (1919)
"The ordinary armoured car had often proved too heavy for its purpose in districts where the so-called roads were little more ..."

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