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merchant ship

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A vessel engaged in mercantile trade except river craft, estuarial craft, or craft which operate solely within harbor limits.
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Noun1.merchant shipmerchant ship - a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
freighter, merchantman, bottom
cargo ship, cargo vessel - a ship designed to carry cargo


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There is no order more noisily given or taken up with lustier shouts on board a homeward-bound merchant ship than the command, "Man the windlass
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three- hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec.
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context
Her husband had been a captain of a merchant ship, and having had the misfortune to be cast away coming home on a voyage from the West Indies, which would have been very profitable if he had come safe, was so reduced by the loss, that though he had saved his life then, it broke his heart, and killed him afterwards; and his widow, being pursued by the creditors, was forced to take shelter in the Mint.
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