BLOCKADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blockading mean? 

• BLOCKADING (adjective)
  The adjective BLOCKADING has 1 sense:

1. blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors

  Familiarity information: BLOCKADING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOCKADING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors

Context example:

the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions

Similar:

preventative; preventive (tending to prevent or hinder)

 Context examples 

They do not love the blockading service, and it is little wonder, since neither money nor honour is to be gained at it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We should have you on blockading service when the levanters are blowing,” said my father.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even in the quiet of the cottage of Friar’s Oak we could scarce have lived, were it not that in the blockading squadron in which my father was stationed there was the occasional chance of a little prize-money.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)