单词 | merchantman |
释义 | merchantman From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Watermerchantmanmer‧chant‧man /ˈmɜːtʃəntmən $ ˈmɜːr-/ noun (plural merchantmen /-mən/) [countable] old-fashionedTTWa ship used for carrying goodsExamples from the Corpusmerchantman• In 1787 he sailed as a subaltern on a merchantman that was wrecked.• There was a mass of shipping in the port, small skiffs, boats, the huge heavy-bottomed sterns of Hanseatic merchantmen.• Imperial merchantmen traversing the warp would flee at the sighting of one.• How much further west the Minoan merchantmen sailed remains a matter for speculation: possibly as far as southern Britain.• No damage was caused to any of the warships or merchantmen.• Our cog was a sturdy merchantman escorted by a small man-of-war. |
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