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torpedo rams

torpedo rams is the plural of torpedo ram.

Meaning of torpedo ram

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

Questions about torpedo rams

What is torpedo rams the plural of?
Torpedo rams is the plural of torpedo ram.

Words near torpedo rams in the dictionary

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

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