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Merchant ship Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Merchant ship has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a cargo ship

"they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"

2

A marine cargo vessel.

See Also
merchant navy merchant fleet knarr tidesman convoy cargo vessel plimsoll line international load line
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
cargo ship
Rhyming Words
hip whip chip unhip inship rechip reship i ship unship v chip dadship overhip hagship fanship modchip manship skyship curship dogship donship
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