merchantman : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: merchantman	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for merchantman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
merchantman n a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" Synonym(s): bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Merchantman \Mer"chant*man\, n.; pl. {Merchantmen}. 1. A merchant. [Obs.] --Matt. xiii. 45. 2. A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.