·add. ·noun = Torpedo-boat destroyer.
II. Destroyer ·noun One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
(Ex. 12:23), the agent employed in the killing of the first-born; the destroying angel or messenger ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessel...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun One who destroys himself; a suicide. ...
·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...