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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that penetrates or evades a blockade.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person or a vessel engaged in the business of running a blockade.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a ship that runs through or around a naval blockade

Examples

  • “So I went with blockade-runner, a craft which must be fast and wily. saucy sauce Says:”

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  • “Matthew Yglesias: the blockade-runner of left-wing blogging!”

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  • “Historians think it was a blockade-runner during the civil war.”

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  • “As you also know, a class action lawsuit under the name Save our Trachea (SOT), started by the estate of Lt. Commander Jareen, late officer of the Tantive IV blockade-runner, was filed a number of years ago.”

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  • “A blockade-runner must have come in, because the Germans were well represented.”

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  • “A German blockade-runner, a gray freighter with a tarp over a forward gun, stood off by itself.”

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  • “The only occupants Harry saw at first were German officers from the blockade-runner.”

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  • “In 1861 Laurent St. Jean built a blockade-runner called the _Red Bird_.”

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  • “We were chasing a suspicious looking blockade-runner, a short time after he had his remarkable invitation to dine with the admiral; our engines were moving a little more rapidly than usual; and, Jocko, who was perched on the skylight above, was looking at them with the most intense interest.”

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  • “Was it strange that the people of leaguered Richmond -- that the worn hero starving in the trench at Petersburg -- came to execrate those vampires fattening on their life-blood; came to regard the very name of blockade-runner as a stench and the government that leagued with it as”

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