- blockade-running
- noun see blockade-runner
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
blockade-running
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blockade-running — See blockade runner. * * * … Universalium
blockade-running — noun see blockade runner … Useful english dictionary
blockade-runner — blockade running, n. /blo kayd run euhr/, n. a ship or person that passes through a blockade. [1860 65] * * * … Universalium
Blockade runner — A blockade runner is a term applied to ships used to evade a naval blockade of a harbor or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to… … Wikipedia
Blockade — For other uses, see Blockade (disambiguation). An action during the British fleet s blockade of the French port of Toulon between 1810 and 1814, depicted by Thomas Luny … Wikipedia
blockade — blockader, n. /blo kayd /, n., v., blockaded, blockading. n. 1. the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit. 2. any obstruction of passage or progress:… … Universalium
Blockade Strategy Board — The Blockade Strategy Board of the American Civil War, also known variously as the Commission of Conference or as the Du Pont Board, was a group of four men, meeting in the summer of 1861 at the request of the Navy Department, who laid out a… … Wikipedia
blockade-runner — noun Date: 1862 a ship or person that runs through a blockade • blockade running noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
Union blockade — Part of the American Civil War An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott … Wikipedia
Siege running — mainly refers to naval blockade running, using ships, often minimally armed and armored to give the speed to bring cargo, e.g. food, across naval military blockades. However, it may refer to such procedure using other technology, e.g.:* Airbridge … Wikipedia
