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destroyer|dɪˈstrɔɪə(r)|
Also 4–5 destrier. distriere, 5 distruyere, destroer.
[f. destroy v. + -er; prob. orig. a. OF. destruiere, -eor, -eour, f. destrui-re to destroy.]
a. A person or thing that destroys.
1382Wyclif Rev. ix. 11 Appolion, and by Latyn hauynge the name Destrier [1388 a distriere]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. xix. (1495) 45 Also the fende hyghte Appolyon in Grewe, A destroyer. c1410Hymn Virg. v. in Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry x, Heyl distruyere of everi strisse. 1483Cath. Angl. 98/1 A Destroer, vbi a waster. c1530Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 30 Covetyse is distroyer of hym selfe. 1535Coverdale 1 Chron. xxi. 15 The Lorde..sayde vnto the angell y⊇ destroyer: It is ynough, holde now thy hande. 1630in Descr. Thames (1758) 65 They are..great Destroyers of Barbels, and other Kind of Fish. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 697 Great Conquerors..Destroyers rightlier call'd and Plagues of men. 1795Southey Joan of Arc x. 54 Were it a crime if thy more mighty force Destroy'd the fell destroyer? 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 102 A neutralizer or destroyer of contagion.
b. A type of small, fast warship armed with guns, torpedoes, etc., used for escort-work, attacking submarines, etc., orig. built for attacking torpedo-boats. Also attrib. and Comb., spec. in destroyer-escort (chiefly U.S.), a small destroyer; destroyer-leader U.S., a large destroyer.
Destroyer was the proper name of an American torpedo-boat in 1882 (see Leisure Hour, 1882, 637/2, quoting Brooklyn Eagle).
1893Torpedo-boat destroyer [see torpedo boat b]. 1899Torpedo destroyer [see torpedo n. 6].
[1893Revue gén. des Sciences IV. 458 (Bonnaffé), Le Destroyer était amarré à 30m, 48 d'un bassin.] 1894Daily News 11 June 6/5 The torpedo-boat destroyer built by the same firm last year for the Admiralty..This type of boiler..is being put into most of the ‘destroyers’ which are being built for the Government. 1895Daily News 27 July 3/1 The Rocket, another destroyer,..will not be ready for sea until Wednesday next. 1897Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 139 It is becoming difficult to obtain the requisite area in screws of ‘destroyers’ without either resorting to an abnormal width of blade or to a large diameter. 1898Kipling Fleet in Being ii. 23 Would she—and a fast cruiser can do this—try to rush her by night, destroyer-fashion? 1899Daily News 25 July 6/6 She is the gunboat in charge of one of our destroyer divisions. 1914Sphere 17 Oct. 74/1 She [sc. the submarine] discovered two German destroyers on patrol duty. 1927Daily Tel. 28 June 12/1 Large cruisers, destroyer-leaders, and submarines. 1929W. J. Locke Jorico 124 He strode up and down with the air of the Commander of a Destroyer going into his first action. 1931[see destroying vbl. n. b]. 1945Jane's Fighting Ships 1943–4 p. vi, Most numerous of any type [of American destroyer] are the so-called destroyer-escorts the design of which corresponds with that of British frigates of the ‘Captain's’ class. 1952Ibid. 1952–3 p. vii, All five of the destroyer leaders, another new category of U.S. warship.., have been launched and are due to be completed at the end of the year. 1969Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 31 Oct. 11/1 The crippled Canadian destroyer-escort Kootenay will be towed back to Halifax for repairs. |