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Definition of Merchant ship
1. Noun. A cargo ship. "They did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
Generic synonyms: Cargo Ship, Cargo Vessel
Derivative terms: Freight, Freight
Definition of Merchant ship
1. Noun. A marine cargo vessel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merchant Ship
Literary usage of Merchant ship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"Robert L. Taylor, merchant ship owner. AA Low Д Brother, merchant ship CH Mar shall,
... Your obedient servants, EE Morgan, merchant ship owner. Win. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"The merchant ship shall be carried immediately to the nearest and most convenient
port belonging to the belligerent power, and the ulterior search shall be ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... 4 and within the jurisdiction aforesaid, pirati- 4 cally and feloniously did
steal, take, and carry ' away the said merchant ship, called The 1 ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Lit Digest 52:1266-7 My 6 '16 Guns on the merchant ship. New Repub 6: Am 114:430
Ap 22 '16 Arizona What prohibition did to Arizona. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The first-class merchant ship costs £28 [$136.08] per ton weight of hull and
about £13 [$63.18] per indicated horse-power for the engines. ..."