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blockader

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She can only try to beat the blockader.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't believe there is any blockader there.

From Within The Enemy's Lines by Optic, Oliver

Yet, ever and again—through wooden mesh of the blockade-net and its iron links, alike—slipped a fleet, arrowy little blockader into port.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.

My master was the captain of the Floridian, and we came out here to see if there was any blockader near, that had come up in the fog.

From Stand By The Union by Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse)

But the "blockader" recognized Bud and had no fears of his playing informer, so with an amused smile on his bearded face he stepped into sight with a tin cup invitingly out-held.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville