merchant ship
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
merchant ship (plural merchant ships)
- A marine cargo vessel.
- 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song
- Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
- Old pirates, yes, they rob I
- 2021 February 9, “There are those outstanding final moments in real-life hostage drama Captain Phillips (2013), about the hijacking of a US merchant ship by Somali pirates, in which his traumatised mariner is moved to near-hysteria by his ordeal”, in BBC[1]:
- 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song
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Translations[edit]
marine cargo vessel — see cargo ship