Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that penetrates or evades a blockade.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person or a vessel engaged in the business of running a blockade.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ship that runs through or around a naval blockade
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Matthew Yglesias: the blockade-runner of left-wing blogging!
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So I went with blockade-runner, a craft which must be fast and wily. saucy sauce Says:
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Historians think it was a blockade-runner during the civil war.
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As you also know, a class action lawsuit under the name Save our Trachea (SOT), started by the estate of Lt. Commander Jareen, late officer of the Tantive IV blockade-runner, was filed a number of years ago.
Parenting 101 2005
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A blockade-runner must have come in, because the Germans were well represented.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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A German blockade-runner, a gray freighter with a tarp over a forward gun, stood off by itself.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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The only occupants Harry saw at first were German officers from the blockade-runner.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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In 1861 Laurent St. Jean built a blockade-runner called the _Red Bird_.
Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958
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We were chasing a suspicious looking blockade-runner, a short time after he had his remarkable invitation to dine with the admiral; our engines were moving a little more rapidly than usual; and, Jocko, who was perched on the skylight above, was looking at them with the most intense interest.
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Was it strange that the people of leaguered Richmond -- that the worn hero starving in the trench at Petersburg -- came to execrate those vampires fattening on their life-blood; came to regard the very name of blockade-runner as a stench and the government that leagued with it as
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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