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Torpedo-boat Destroyer

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Noun

1. torpedo-boat destroyer

small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Torpedo-boat Destroyer

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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

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Torpedo-boat Destroyer

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a former warship like a torpedo boat but larger and more heavily armed, originally designed to destroy torpedo boats

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Torpedo-boat Destroyer

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n.
A large, heavily armed torpedo boat used in combat especially against other torpedo boats, notably in the early 1900s.

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