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merrimac

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Mer⋅ri⋅mac

  [mer-uh-mak]
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–noun
a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads.
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merrimac

noun
an ironclad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North 
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