dogship

English

Etymology 1

dog +‎ -ship

Noun

dogship (countable and uncountable, plural dogships)

1. The character or individuality of a dog.

Etymology 2

dog +‎ ship

Noun

dogship (plural dogships)

1. (aviation, informal) An experimental model of an aircraft.
   • 2005, Malcolm J. Abzug, E. Eugene Larrabee, Airplane Stability and Control, page 103:

     The Sperry Gyroscope Company's DC-3 “dogship” proved the concept in test flights at the Sperry plant in Long Island, New York.

   • 2011, Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Flight Craft 8: Mikoyan MiG-31: Defender of the Homeland, page 16:

     After this, the Mikoyan OKB undertook a redesign of the fuel system; the changes were to be verified on the third production MiG-31, '201 Blue' (f/n 0102-01), a long-serving 'dogship'.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dogship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• godship