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词汇 East Indiaman
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Definition of East Indiaman in English:

East Indiaman

noun
historical
  • A trading ship belonging to the East India Company.

    〈史〉(东印度公司的)大货船

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The facts are sketchy, but this much is known: at some point in the late 1730s, an East Indiaman crashed on the reefs of the Wild Coast's Lambasi Bay.
    • Together they had sailed the oceans of the world, wherever work was needed, either in the French Navy, on merchant vessels, or aboard East Indiamen, they were all the same to them.
    • She is the second replica of an East Indiaman after the Dutch Batavia, though from a later period.
    • It was then British policy to transport convicts in officially naval vessels, although the Calcutta was a big converted East Indiaman with 500 people aboard.
    • There are more wrecks, such as the Valentine, a Dutch East Indiaman sunk in 1779 off La Neste, Brecqhou island, where its cargo of semi-precious stones can still be found by observant divers.

Definition of East Indiaman in US English:

East Indiaman

nounˌēst ˈindēəmən
historical
  • A trading ship belonging to the East India Company.

    〈史〉(东印度公司的)大货船

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was then British policy to transport convicts in officially naval vessels, although the Calcutta was a big converted East Indiaman with 500 people aboard.
    • She is the second replica of an East Indiaman after the Dutch Batavia, though from a later period.
    • The facts are sketchy, but this much is known: at some point in the late 1730s, an East Indiaman crashed on the reefs of the Wild Coast's Lambasi Bay.
    • Together they had sailed the oceans of the world, wherever work was needed, either in the French Navy, on merchant vessels, or aboard East Indiamen, they were all the same to them.
    • There are more wrecks, such as the Valentine, a Dutch East Indiaman sunk in 1779 off La Neste, Brecqhou island, where its cargo of semi-precious stones can still be found by observant divers.
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