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Definition of Blockading
1. Adjective. Blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors. "The blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions"
Definition of Blockading
1. Verb. (present participle of blockade) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blockading
1. blockade [v] - See also: blockade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blockading
Literary usage of Blockading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law; Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States in Peace by Henry Wager Halleck (1861)
"Such accidental removal of blockading force, if it be only for a very short ...
But if the blockading forces should be so scattered or injured by the storm ..."
2. International Law Documents by Naval War College (U.S.) (1908)
"492 of the Navy Department, June 20, 1898, gives quite full statement for the
guidance of blockading vessels and cruisers: INSTRUCTIONS TO blockading ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"There is evident danger in entering the port of Wilmington, from the presence of
a blockading force; and by this test the blockade is effective. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1848)
"Report on Scorbutus, as it appeared on board the United States Squadron, blockading
the Ports in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Summer of 1846. By JM FOLTZ, MD, ..."
5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"They gave her a right to inquire of the blockading squadron, if she had not ...
Where an enemy's port was declared in a state of blockading blockade by ..."
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