Associations to the word «Minesweeper»

Wiktionary

MINESWEEPER, noun. A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
MINESWEEPER, noun. (uncountable) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.

Dictionary definition

MINESWEEPER, noun. Ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne