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merchant ship [′mər·chənt ‚ship] (naval architecture) A power-driven ship employed in commercial transport on the oceans and large inland bodies of water such as the Great Lakes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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 Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three- hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. 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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