(definition) by Webster 1913 Mon Mar 14 2005 at 0:39:14

Tor*pe"do-boat` de*stroy"er.

A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

 

© Webster 1913.

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