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Blockade-runner   /blˌɑkˈeɪd-rˈənər/   Listen
Blockade-runner

noun
1.
A ship that runs through or around a naval blockade.





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... were repelled, and then Mustapha moved on to Theriso, now abandoned by the Cretans, who had just then received the news of the arrival of the Panhellenion blockade-runner with arms and ammunition, the first open aid they had received from Greece. A considerable body of Hellenic volunteers also came, and the resistance became more solid, and the influence of Athens assumed the direction. Up to this time, and indeed much later, I had persistently urged submission, ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman


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