Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Blockading"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
Till storm and driving ice blockade him there.
--Wordsworth.
3. To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door.
--Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blockading
adj : blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors;
"the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions"
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