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n. (context nautical English) Any ocean-going cargo vessel designed to carry bulk cargo in its holds
Usage examples of "bulk carrier".
One of the ships was enormous, in the two-fifty kiloton range, a bulk carrier or possibly one of the seed-ships used to found planetary colonies back in the old days.
Ortega's fightdrome was an ancient bulk carrier, moored up in the north end of the Bay, alongside acres of abandoned warehouses.
The hull was a large merchant variety, an eight-thousand-ton bulk carrier of the type used to ferry manganese ore from the Southern Islands under Santander protectorate.
A bulk carrier's tuning components may last as long as fifty years between replacements and those of a passenger ship up to twenty years, but a warship is likely to require complete tuner overhaul and replacement as frequently as once every eight to ten years.
The freighter was designed along the lines of a tanker or bulk carrier, with the blocky, white superstructure far aft, and hold access through deck hatches in the long forward deck.
The Amy Bigalow is a bulk carrier with a cargo of twenty-five thousand tons of ammonium nitrate.
There was a short length of corridor, and then he was into the massive open hold of the bulk carrier.