torpedo : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a torpedo designed to be launched from an airplane
  

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• noun a metal pipe filled with explosive, used to detonate land mines or to clear a path through barbed wire
  

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• a spindle-shaped, or fish-shaped, self-propelling submarine torpedo.

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• noun a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)
  

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• noun a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat
  mosquito craft; PT boat; mosquito boat.
  

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• a canister or other vessel containing an explosive charge, and attached to the end of a long spar which projects from a ship or boat and is thrust against an enemy's ship, exploding the torpedo.
• (Naut.), a torpedo carried on the end of a spar usually projecting from the bow of a vessel, and intended to explode upon contact with an enemy's ships.

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• noun a torpedo designed to be launched from a submarine
  

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• noun small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters
  

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• a vessel adapted for carrying, launching, operating, or otherwise making use of, torpedoes against an enemy's ship. Espec., a small, fast boat with tubes for launching torpedoes

Webster 1913

• nettings made of chains or bars, which can be suspended around a vessel and allowed to sink beneath the surface of the water, as a protection against torpedoes.

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• noun a tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is fired
  

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• noun small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats
  

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