Monitors
['mɑnətɚ]
Examples
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Admiral Porter arrived on the evening of the 18th, having put in at Beaufort to get ammunition for the monitors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miss Miller again gave the word of command-- Monitors, fetch the supper-trays! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- German submarines were actively engaged in trying to torpedo these monitors and the British monoplane was useful for giving the range to the ship and reporting the accuracy of the shots. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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