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merchantman


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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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