merchantman Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a cargo ship
    merchant ship; freighter; bottom.
    • they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms

WordNet

Mer"chant*man noun
Wordforms
plural Merchantmen
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913