blockade
noun
the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
blockader
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a word derived from
blockade.
Example Sentences
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She can only try to beat the blockader.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Confederate steamer had sensibly increased her speed, and gave no attention whatever to the schooner or the blockader to the westward of her.
From A Victorious Union by Oliver Optic
I was tooken in a blockader, eight on us.
From A Victorious Union by Oliver Optic
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 L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
For a blockader off Charleston or Wilmington to be forced to return to Hampton Roads to coal or to make repairs, would entail the loss of weeks, perhaps months, of valuable time.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by W. C. Jackson
