tank-destroyer

plural tank-destroyers

1. rareRare form of tank destroyer.

   I have no doubt that they will try to provide tank-destroyers.

   1917 January 7, James Douglas, “Greatest Battle the World Will Ever See: Only Two Ways in Which the War Can End”, in Sunday Pictorial, number 96, page 5, column 2

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   Belgium’s newest article of warfare is the “tank-destroyer.” It is a small tank, run by a continuous drive, and pulls a powerful field gun.

   1936 May 11, Wise County Messenger, 56th year, number 24, Decatur, Tex., page four, column 1

   “Balloon” aprons for air defence; bigger and better artillery of the clouds, firing 1lb. shells at 100 a minute; machine-guns to excel the Czecho-Slovak “Bren” type (worked by gas and firing 600 shots a minute); tank-destroyers of flat trajectory great range and high power of penetration; above all, the “torpedo-proof” warship—here are but a few of the elaborate “killers” and “saviours” to which the ablest human talents are at this moment turned.

   1937 January 31, Ignatius Phayre, “Menace of Sabotage”, in The Sunday Sun, number 914, page 4, column 4

   The tank-destroyer was a kind of armored car with a 76mm cannon.

   2008 May 24, David Mehegan, “Sixty years of silence”, in The Boston Globe, volume 273, number 145, page C8, column 1