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单词 Indiaman
释义

Indiaman

English

Etymology

From India + -man.

Noun

Indiaman (plural Indiamen)

  1. (nautical) A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company.
    • 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
      It was arranged that the ships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman
    • 1924 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes”, in Memories and Adventures, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, OCLC 1367896, page 110:
      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.

Further reading

  • East Indiaman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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