Merchantman
['mɜːtʃ(ə)ntmən] or ['mɝtʃəntmən]
Definition
(n.) A merchant.
(n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.
Edited by Hamilton
Examples
- This is of prime importance, as permitting quick submergence or emergence, either to escape from a high-speed destroyer or to capture a merchantman. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The writer had been one of the crew, and the letter was to his son, who was, at the very time the letter was written, master of a Spanish merchantman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an English merchantman, but who was the master I never inquired. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Checker: Virgil