blockade-runners in English
noun
1
a vessel that runs or attempts to run into or out of a blockaded port.
After two unsuccessful attempts to use Confederate money to book passage to Europe on a blockade runner out of Wilmington, North Carolina, Garidel realized that he was trapped in Richmond.
2
the owner, master, or one of the crew of a blockade runner.
Merchants, mercenaries, pirates, blockade runners , and all sorts of travelers come through Nerlack Lunar Base daily, slipping unnoticed onboard a ship will not be difficult.
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1. Blockade runners could make a lot of money if their ships and cargo successfully passed the Blockade
2. We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners... whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns... have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.