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Commerce Destroyer
Webster's Dictionary
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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Commerce Destroyer'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/commerce-destroyer.html. 1828.