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merchantman

/mur-chuhnt-muhn/US // ˈmɜr tʃənt mən //UK // (ˈmɜːtʃəntmən) //

商贩,商人,美商,商船

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mer·chant·men.

    • : a trading ship.

Examples

  • The stranger came bowling down under full sail and fired a gun as a hint for the supposed merchantman to stop.

  • We will give him two more broadsides with grape through his stern windows, and then bear up after that lumbering merchantman.

  • Later on engaged a pirate brigantine, the Agile, of ten guns, which had just captured a Spanish merchantman.

  • A stately merchantman with snowy canvas was entering the Gate.

  • “She is the very merchantman we saw yesterday, or I am much mistaken,” observed the commander.