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☆ destroyer escort

a warship smaller and slower than a destroyer, used mainly to escort merchant ships

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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