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Blockade-runner

Definition: Blockade-runner

Blockade-runner

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Photo Album: Blockade-runner

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Sullivan's Island, S.C. Wreck of blockade-runner near the shore. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Modern Translation: Blockade-runner

Language Translations for "blockade-runner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

封锁转轮. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saarron murtaja. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

봉쇄대 주자. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockade-runnerblay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Blockade-runner

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-k-l-n-n-o-r-r-u"

-4 letters: nondurable, recordable.

-5 letters: anklebone, banderole, bandoleer, becloaked, blackened, blackener, blockader, blunderer, bordereau, bucklered, burladero, cornbread, denouncer, endurable, endurance, launderer, noncareer, nonreader, orderable, rebounder, renounced, renouncer, unblocked, uncleaned, uncleaner, unclearer, uncloaked, unlearned.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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