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torpedo ram

torpedo ram noun: a warship designed to sink enemy vessels using a combination of torpedo (self-propelled naval weapon) fire and ramming.

Noun

torpedo ram (plural torpedo rams)

  1. (historical) A warship designed to sink enemy vessels using a combination of torpedo (self-propelled naval weapon) fire and ramming.
    • When his eyes were clear again, he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward. Big iron upper-works rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected, and spat a smoking blast shot with fire into the air. It was the torpedo-ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong...1898, H.G. Wells, “The "Thunder Child."”, in The War of the Worlds, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, retrieved 24 Nov 2022, page 175

Forms of torpedo ram

pluraltorpedo rams
alternative formtorpedo-ram

Questions about torpedo ram

What does torpedo ram mean?
Torpedo ram means a warship designed to sink enemy vessels using a combination of torpedo (self-propelled naval weapon) fire and ramming.
What part of speech is torpedo ram?
Torpedo ram is a noun.
What is the plural of torpedo ram?
The plural of torpedo ram is torpedo rams.

Words near torpedo ram in the dictionary

  1. torpedo juice
  2. torpedo net
  3. torpedo nets
  4. torpedo punt
  5. torpedo punts
  6. torpedo ram
  7. torpedo rams
  8. torpedo roll
  9. torpedo rolls
  10. torpedo skate
  11. torpedo skates

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