WordNet
n. a liner that carries cargo
Wikipedia
A cargo liner is a type of merchant ship which carries general cargo and often passengers. They became common just after the middle of the 19th century, and eventually gave way to container ships and other more specialized carriers in the latter half of the 20th century.
Usage examples of "cargo liner".
Captain of the Norwegian Rindal Lines passenger-cargo liner Narvik.
Captain of the Norwegian Rindal Linespassenger-cargo liner Narvik.
He had orders to leave the once-derelict cargo liner in orbit so she could be inspected for structural damage before anyone attempted a landfall.
Braving the winds and spray, Captain Arne Korvold stood on the open bridge of the Norwegian Rindal Lines passenger-cargo liner Narvik and aimed his binoculars at a huge ship wallowing dead in the whitecaps.
A Japanese ship carrying Murmoto automobiles and two or more nuclear devices detonated in the middle of the Pacific, taking a Norwegian passenger-cargo liner and the British survey ship and their crews with her.
The skipper of the cargo liner _Auriga_ was furious, and so was his crew--but there was nothing they could do about it.
But I was room steward in a cargo liner - two trips when I was a kid.
But I was room steward in a cargo liner -- two trips when I was a kid.
The Vaughns took the usual emigrant routing: winged shuttle rocket to the inner satellite station, ugly wingless ferry rocket to the outer station, transshipment there to the great globular cargo liner Hesperus.
She must have been a crack cargo liner in her day, but now she's just a rusty old hulk making, her last voyage.
In her prime, she would have been classed as an express cargo liner.
As the cargo liner continued moving slowly, Celia's musing drifted on .