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Commerce destroyer

Com"merce de*stroy"er\ (Nav.) A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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