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ˈmerchantman
[f. merchant a. + man.]
1. = merchant n. 1. arch.
1449Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 402 That na merchand man of this burgh opin his both dorr to do ony merchandise..apon the Sondai. 1530Palsgr. 737/1 He hath the best storyd house of good housholde stuffe of any marchant man that I knowe. 1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xxix. (1560) 289 A marchant man maketh far voiages and great iourneis, and ventureth body and goods. 1638Ford Fancies v. iii, All men of severall conditions; Soldier, Gentry, foole, scholler, Merchant man, and Clowne. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 126 'Mongst Merchant-men, there's not one in ten, But what is a cunning Angler. 1882Ouida Maremma iii, The port dues and shipping taxes have..nearly destroyed all the commerce of the minor merchantmen of Italy. 1898K. Tynan in Westm. Gaz. 12 Oct. 1/3 Battering at Dublin gates till the comfortable merchantmen within were fairly distracted.
2. A vessel of the mercantile marine.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xii. 56 Not manned like a Merchant-man. 1711Addison Spect. No. 21 ⁋9 Fleets of Merchantmen are so many Squadrons of floating Shops. 1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. iii. (1865) 19 This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage. 1856Olmsted Slave States 148 Merchantmen were paying twenty-five dollars for common able seamen. |