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blockship

blockship noun: a vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy).

Noun

blockship (plural blockships)

  1. A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
    • […] the veteran paddle-steamer Gondolier was sunk as a blockship at Scapa Flow; […].1946 September and October, “Notes and News: The War Effect on the Clyde Steamers”, in Railway Magazine, page 324

Forms of blockship

pluralblockships

Origin of blockship

From block + ship.

Questions about blockship

What does blockship mean?
Blockship means a vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy).
What part of speech is blockship?
Blockship is a noun.
What is the plural of blockship?
The plural of blockship is blockships.

Words near blockship in the dictionary

  1. blocks the box
  2. blocks up
  3. blockscape
  4. blockscapes
  5. blocksful
  6. blockship
  7. blockships
  8. blocksize
  9. blocksizes
  10. blockstone
  11. blockt

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