Tramp steamer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A commercial steamship that has no regular schedule or published ports of call.

    "They found out I was bright, so they figured I'd make a good labor organizer when I got out of school. When I left at the end of the summer, they carefully instructed me how to shag a tramp steamer in 'Frisco going south, lending me an old union card so I could work my passage as a deck hand."

  2. 2
    a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule wordnet

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freightershiptankertramp

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"They found out I was bright, so they figured I'd make a good labor organizer when I got out of school. When I left at the end of the summer, they carefully instructed me how to shag a tramp steamer in 'Frisco going south, lending me an old union card so I could work my passage as a deck hand."

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