Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ship used to block the entrance to a harbor or port.
- noun An old man-of-war, unfit for operations in the open sea, used as a store-ship or receiving-vessel, etc.; a hulk.
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Examples
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Provesteen, and Wagner, and immediately after these the Jutland, between which and the block-ship Dannebrog, the leading English ship of seventy-four guns fixed her station, by throwing out one of her rear-anchors, obeyed the signal, by a well directed and well supported fire.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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Among the former, it is with grief that I mention the captains of the block-ship Infoedstratten and the frigate Kronbrog, Captain Thura and First-Lieutenant Hauch, with several other brave officers: among the wounded, the commander of the Dannebrog; who, besides other wounds, has lost his right hand.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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The enemy had, on the whole, _two ships to one_: and the block-ship Provesteen had, besides a ship of the line and the rear-admiral, two frigates against her; by which she was raked the whole time, without being able to return a shot.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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The gunboats, Nyebrog and Aggershuus -- which last towed the former away, when near sinking -- ran ashore, and the Gurnarshe floating-battery, which had suffered much, together with the block-ship Dannebrog, shortly after the battle, blew up.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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The enemy had, on the whole, two ships to one: and the block-ship Provesteen had, besides a ship of the line and the rear-admiral, two frigates against her; by which she was raked the whole time, without being able to return a shot.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806
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Among the former, it is with grief that I mention the captains of the block-ship Infoedstratten and the frigate Kronbrog, Captain Thura and First-Lieutenant Hauch, with several other brave officers: among the wounded, the commander of the Dannebrog; who, besides other wounds, has lost his right hand.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806
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Provesteen, and Wagner, and immediately after these the Jutland, between which and the block-ship Dannebrog, the leading English ship of seventy-four guns fixed her station, by throwing out one of her rear-anchors, obeyed the signal, by a well directed and well supported fire.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806
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The gunboats, Nyebrog and Aggershuus ” which last towed the former away, when near sinking ” ran ashore, and the Gurnarshe floating-battery, which had suffered much, together with the block-ship Dannebrog, shortly after the battle, blew up.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806
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