tank-destroyer

tank-destroyer (plural tank-destroyers)

1. Rare form of tank destroyer.
   • 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:

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

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

     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.

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

     “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.

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

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