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n. A vehicle, mainly referring to a naval one, with the purpose to bring cargo across a military blockade.
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A blockade runner is usually a lighter-weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city. In other cases the blockade runners would carry mail in an attempt to communicate with the outside world.
Usage examples of "blockade runner".
SERENA BUTLER, unpublished memoirs he cloud-gray blockade runner was not only fast and dif-Jt ficult to see against the murky skies of Giedi Prime, it contained the most sophisticated stealth profile of any craft in the League arsenal.
The vessel they referred to was not the famous Sea Devil raider, captamed by the redoubtable John Maffitt, but a garden-variety commercial blockade runner that was captured and appropriated into the navy as a warship they named Florida.
There's no better blockade runner on the Bitter Seaexcepting myself, of course, but I've other matters to take care of here.
Theres no better blockade runner on the Bitter Seaexcepting myself, of course, but Ive other matters to take care of here.
However, being a blockade runner had taught him two very important things: discipline and patience.
There's no better blockade runner on the Bitter Sea -- excepting myself, of course, but I've other matters to take care of here.
A blockade runner is breaking no laws except those of the power that has imposed the blockade - unless she shows her teeth, uses her teeth .
Ronan was certainly as much a curiosity as a domestic cat on a blockade runner.
For in spite of the commodore's confidence and his obvious belief that any possible prize or blockade runner would appear from the south where he had placed his other two.