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Torpedo ram

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torpedo-ramnounAlternative form of torpedo ram. [(military, nautical, historical) A warship designed to sink enemy vessels using a combination of torpedo (self-propelled naval weapon) fire and ramming.]
torpedo cruisernoun(military, nautical, chiefly historical) A large warship using torpedoes (the self-propelled naval weapons) as its primary armament.
torpedo boatnounA high-speed marine vessel (small warship or large boat) designed to fire torpedoes, especially in coastal waters.
torpedonoun(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
spar torpedonounA weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, attached to a boat, and used by ramming the end of the spar into an enemy ship before detonating the bomb.
torpedoernounA vessel capable of firing torpedoes.
torpedo netnoun(military, historical) A net hung from a ship by means of horizontal booms, designed to cause an attacker's torpedo to explode some distance away from the hull.
torpedo tubenoun(nautical) A metal tube mounted in a submarine or surface warship into which a torpedo may be loaded and launched through the hull or from the deck; a torpedo launcher.
motor torpedo boatnoun(military, nautical) A torpedo boat powered by an internal combustion engine rather than a steam engine.
torpedo catchernoun(military, nautical) A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
torpedo boomnoun(historical) A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end.
torpedoistnounOne skilled in the theory or use of naval torpedoes.
bomb shipnoun(military, nautical, historical) A ship armed with high-angle mortars firing explosive or carcass shells, and specialized for shore bombardment.
rammermannounA member of the navy employed to operate a ramming device that pushes a projectile into the gun barrel.
ram bownoun(nautical, chiefly military, historical) A bow that projects forwards below the waterline into a reinforced blade or point, used to sink other ships by ramming.
fishnoun(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
torpedomannounA person in charge of the torpedoes on a military vessel.
hydrobombnoun(historical) A kind of underwater rocket or torpedo.
explodernounSomeone or something that explodes.
battleshipnoun(military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.

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