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blockships

blockships is the plural of blockship.

Meaning of blockship

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

Questions about blockships

What is blockships the plural of?
Blockships is the plural of blockship.

Words near blockships in the dictionary

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

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