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Meaning of COMMERCE DESTROYER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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