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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Merchantman \Mer"chant*man\, n.; pl {Merchantmen}.
1. A merchant. [Obs.] --Matt. xiii. 45.
2. A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of
goods, as distinguished from a man-of-war.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
merchantman
n : a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in
foreign bottoms" [syn: {bottom}, {freighter}, {merchant
ship}]
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