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noun

Merchantman n. (pl. merchantmen)

A merchant. (Obs.)

A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Merchantman" Quotes from Famous Books

... called the "America," the equipment and operations of which illustrated precisely the business conception which attached to these enterprises in the minds of competent business men. This ship-rigged vessel of four hundred and seventy-three tons, built of course for a merchantman, was about eight years old when the war broke out, and had just returned from a voyage. Seeing that ordinary commerce was likely to be a very precarious undertaking, her owners spent the months of July and August in preparing her deliberately for her new ...

— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan

... first place, the navigating officers of a merchantman are merely the employees of civilians—the shipowners. In the second place, the Board of Trade, by compelling shipowners to carry a certain number of navigators and engineers holding certificates of competency, ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... Ishmael sat there was no one present except the old retired merchantman, Captain Mountz, who sat on the opposite side, directly under the port lights. And with the rolling of the ship these two diners, holding desperately onto the edge of the table, were tossed up and down like ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... had been done he had bargained with a Peruvian captain of a merchantman to carry the cargo ...

— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood

... de Clieu was a merchantman, and many were the trials that beset passengers and crew. Narrowly escaping capture by a corsair of Tunis, menaced by a violent tempest that threatened to annihilate them, they finally encountered a calm that proved more appalling than either. The supply of drinking water was ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

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