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torpedo-boat destroyer
[ tawr-pee-doh-boht ]
noun
- a vessel somewhat larger than the ordinary torpedo boat, designed for destroying torpedo boats or as a more powerful form of torpedo boat.
torpedo-boat destroyer
noun
- (formerly) a large powerful high-speed torpedo boat designed to destroy enemy torpedo boats: a forerunner of the modern destroyer, from which the name is derived
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of torpedo-boat destroyer1
Example Sentences
The most durable type of vessel to emerge in direct response to torpedo development was the torpedo-boat destroyer, better known as simply the destroyer, which began to appear in the early 1890s.
Viewed from the fore-bridge of H.M. torpedo-boat destroyer Calder, there was little in the outlook to suggest that a state of war had existed for twenty months.
On these still tropic seas, dazzling in the sunshine, there was no sign of war, except an occasional torpedo-boat destroyer which flew past them at a speed of thirty knots an hour.
She is worse than a torpedo-boat destroyer, and that is very bad indeed.
It was said to be a "torpedo-boat destroyer," and was constructed out of the hull of an old tin boat.
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