Why are large guitars called Dreadnoughts?

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Charlie Bernstein said:
Dread is also an old word for four. Four zeros - four naughts - originally simply meant that it was a bigger model than a Martin 00 and 000 - or any other guitar around.
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I don't buy this theory because dreadnought guitars are a different shape than the O-style guitars.
 
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