Associations to the word «Merchantman»

Wiktionary

MERCHANTMAN, noun. (obsolete) merchant
MERCHANTMAN, noun. A cargo ship -- engaged in commercial activities, as opposed to a warship

Dictionary definition

MERCHANTMAN, noun. A cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne