Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel employed in the East India trade.
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Examples
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See the Halsewell, East Indiaman outward bound, driving madly on a
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Ramchunder, East Indiaman, handed over to us yesterday your letter, and, today, I have purchased three thousand three hundred and twenty-three pounds 6 and 8d. three per cent Consols, in our joint names (H. and B. Newcome), held for your little boy.
The Newcomes 2006
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The Ramchunder, East Indiaman, came into the river this morning, having on board 14 officers, and 132 rank and file of this gallant corps.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Inquiries made at Plymouth proved that they had sailed, forty-eight hours previously, in the BEWLEY CASTLE, East Indiaman, bound direct to
The Moonstone 2003
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To take service with an East Indiaman most hit my fancy, and when the sailor told me that London and Southampton were the ports for the East India trade, I began to think of working my passage to one or the other of them.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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Another, the captain of an East Indiaman, was lost at sea in his own ship.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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The Earl of Abergavenny, East Indiaman, left Portsmouth, in the beginning of February, 1805, with forty passengers, and property to the value of eighty-nine thousand pounds sterling on board.
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They have built for every trade from the coaster to the East Indiaman, varying in size from six hundred to four thousand tons, and their vessels pass unchallenged amongst the best in the world.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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When a lad he had served as a midshipman in an East Indiaman, the _Asia_, but having been caught red-handed robbing the purser of brandy and wine, he was flogged and sent to serve as a sailor before the mast.
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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East Indiaman _San Felipe_ with a cargo worth a million pounds in modern money, and even appeared off Lisbon to defy the Spanish
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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