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Definition of blockade runner in English: blockade runnernoun 1A ship that manages to enter or leave a blockaded port. Example sentencesExamples - Its ports were so isolated they were unattractive even to blockade runners, and goods imported there took months to filter north to the heart of the Confederacy.
- Many ships carrying two or three Kingfishers operated in the South Atlantic, searching for subs and blockade runners.
- Blockades of enemy ports during war time tend to develop that peculiar kind of person and ship, the blockade runners.
- After two unsuccessful attempts to use Confederate money to book passage to Europe on a blockade runner out of Wilmington, North Carolina, Garidel realized that he was trapped in Richmond.
- The Denbigh was the last blockade runner between Havana and Mobile to escape.
- Pursuit of blockade runners often ran them aground, costing officers and crew the prize money awarded for captures.
- 1.1 The owner, master, or one of the crew of a blockade runner.
Example sentencesExamples - Merchants, mercenaries, pirates, blockade runners, and all sorts of travelers come through Nerlack Lunar Base daily, slipping unnoticed onboard a ship will not be difficult.
- CenSec had to deal with everything - petty criminals, paramilitaries, and investigative work, and on occasion - pirates and blockade runners.
Definition of blockade runner in US English: blockade runnernoun 1A ship that manages to enter or leave a blockaded port. Example sentencesExamples - Blockades of enemy ports during war time tend to develop that peculiar kind of person and ship, the blockade runners.
- Its ports were so isolated they were unattractive even to blockade runners, and goods imported there took months to filter north to the heart of the Confederacy.
- After two unsuccessful attempts to use Confederate money to book passage to Europe on a blockade runner out of Wilmington, North Carolina, Garidel realized that he was trapped in Richmond.
- Many ships carrying two or three Kingfishers operated in the South Atlantic, searching for subs and blockade runners.
- Pursuit of blockade runners often ran them aground, costing officers and crew the prize money awarded for captures.
- The Denbigh was the last blockade runner between Havana and Mobile to escape.
- 1.1 The owner, master, or one of the crew of a blockade runner.
Example sentencesExamples - CenSec had to deal with everything - petty criminals, paramilitaries, and investigative work, and on occasion - pirates and blockade runners.
- Merchants, mercenaries, pirates, blockade runners, and all sorts of travelers come through Nerlack Lunar Base daily, slipping unnoticed onboard a ship will not be difficult.
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