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Torpedo-boat destroyer   /tɔrpˈidˌoʊ-boʊt dɪstrˈɔɪər/   Listen
Torpedo-boat destroyer

noun
1.
Small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats.





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... any rate," interposed Phil. "Don't think that he talked to me about himself. He only said that he was in the Navy. But Tom told me that Lieutenant Lawton was working on a wonderful invention. I think it is something about a torpedo-boat destroyer that will go twice as fast as any other torpedo boat," Phil went on vaguely. "Lieutenant Lawton has a work-shop near Fortress Monroe. It is kept absolutely private through fear that some one will steal the model for the boat before Lieutenant ...
— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers
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