No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman
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Indiaman
Synonyms for "indiaman" (3 found)
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Noun(1 words)
merchant ship
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
trading ship
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1 entriesEast Indiaman
Collocations
6 entriesEast India Companycargo shipcolonial tradelong voyagemerchant shipsailing ship
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2 total sentences available.
Buried treasures are naturally among the problems which have come to Mr. [Sherlock] Holmes. One genuine case was accompanied by a diagram here reproduced. [...] Each Indiaman in those days had its own semaphore code, and it is conjectured that the three marks upon the left are signals from a three-armed semaphore.
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