West Indiaman

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A merchant vessel trading between Europe and the West Indies (including the Americas). Generally smaller than the similar East Indiamen. uncountable
    — In Joshua Kelly's Treatise on Navigation, of the former date [1757], an instance is related of a West Indiaman drifted, during two days of dead calm, forty-six miles northward, across the mouth of the British Channel.

词形变化

West-Indiaman alternative

词源

From West Indies + -man.
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