Definitions for blockade-runner

blockade-runner block·ade-run·ner

Spelling: [blo-keyd-ruhn-er]
IPA: /blɒˈkeɪdˌrʌn ər/

Blockade-Runner is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1713 anagrams from letters in blockade-runner (-abcdeeklnnorru).

Definitions for blockade-runner

noun

  1. a ship or person that passes through a blockade.

Origin of blockade-runner

First recorded in 1860-65

Examples for blockade-runner

She took passage upon a blockade-runner which, after pursuit, succeeded in reaching the port of Wilmington, North Carolina.

The plan was to give this floating volcano the appearance of a blockade-runner.

The blockade-runner showed no colors; and no flag could have been of any service to her.

A blockade-runner like the Kate, which made forty trips or more, would enrich her owners almost beyond the dreams of avarice.

Those on the schooner could see the gunboat, but the lookout on the cruiser did not see the blockade-runner.

The father, I grieve to add, was suspected by our officers of being a blockade-runner for the Rebels.

No one certainly supposed for a moment that she was an Alexandrian blockade-runner.

She made one trip to England as a blockade-runner, and on her return voyage she burned three or four United States merchantmen.

When hidden by a projecting headland, she stopped and waited for the blockade-runner to come out.

But the blockade-runner can't stand being used for target-practice long.

Word Value for blockade-runner
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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