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

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  1. n. small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats
  2. A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
  3. A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedoboat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedoboats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.