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indiaman

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Indiaman \In"di*a*man\, n.; pl. Indiamen . A large vessel in the India trade. --Macaulay.

Usage examples of indiaman.

The captain and most of the crew were taken on board of the frigate, but ten Lascars and the boys were left in the Indiaman, to assist in taking her into the Isle of France, which was at that time in the hands of the French.

I told you, some other boys as well as myself, who belonged to the Indiaman, and we kept very much together, not only because we were more of an age, but because we had been shipmates so long.

I had just caught hold of the cable of the West Indiaman, and was about to climb up by it, for I was a few yards before Hastings, when I heard a loud shriek, and, turning round, perceived a shark plunging down with Hastings in his jaws.

The large Indiaman was our great attraction because she had come into the downs in the night.

When its cargo of precious silks had been put aboard the East Indiaman and there was still plenty of cargo space, Adam Savage made the decision he knew had been inevitable.

The lights and the voices from the decks merged in friendly banter and the crew of an East Indiaman loaded the last of the cargo that had been piled on the quayside.

He was glad that the Indiaman sailed on the morning tide before Tony returned, for if she were here he knew she would insist upon looking into every box to assure herself that her exports would arrive undamaged.

Lushington Indiaman when we had our brush with Linois on the way back from Sumatra?

Jack, the senior naval officer present, and a long way farther down Stephen sat between the captain of a recently-arrived East Indiaman and a civil servant.

The trouble is that one single Indiaman taken would be exceedingly damaging to us and more immediately profitable than any subsidy I am empowered to offer: and in these parts the outcome of the war seems by no means as certain as I could wish.

They passed the Indiaman a tow, and lugging their heavy burden through the sea they stood on, the wind just abaft the beam.

Windham Indiaman, with parties from each ship repairing the damage caused by the blow and the violence of the enemy, watched by the philosophical French prize-crew.

Yet it was early in the year for that kind of blow: she must have been in the heart of it, the Indiaman on the edge, and the Magicienne quite outside, for Curtis never even struck his top-gallant masts.

She steered better than the Ceylon however, for the Indiaman blundered right into the Bellone, forcing her too to cut.

Iphigenia just inside it, the Bellone, Minerve, Nereide and Ceylon Indiaman far over by Port South-East, and the charred wrecks of the Sirius and Magicienne in the lagoon.