blockade-runner
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of blockade-runner
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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In privateering and blockade-runner cases involving the seizure of neutral and Confederate vessels, for example, the court did not defer to the executive’s views.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2019
Since three ships went to the bottom, another German blockade-runner, of the same general type and cargo, probably slipped through.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day the sea drama was repeated; still another blockade-runner went to the bottom.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the Civil War, as Atlanta smoldered, Root’s father had smuggled him to Liverpool, England, aboard a Confederate blockade-runner.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Not long after he got the top of his head shot off in the Battle of Chickamauga, Cudn Vanna married an Englishman, a blockade-runner for the Confederates.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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