Blockading

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blockade \Block*ade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blockaded}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Blockading}.]
     1. To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with
        troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing
        ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See
        note under {Blockade}, n. "Blockaded the place by sea."


        --Gilpin.
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     2. Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
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              Till storm and driving ice blockade him there.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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     3. To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
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              Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door.
                                                    --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blockading
       adj : blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors;
             "the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions"