merchant ship

noun

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Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025 American merchant ships, Hopper notes, had already developed a significant trade with Oman by the mid-nineteenth century. Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025 Or further, the many more miles of cordage needed by non-whaling merchant ships and naval vessels. Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025 The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for merchant ship

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First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of merchant ship was in the 15th century

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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merchant%20ship. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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