Indiaman
English
Etymology
From India + -man.
Noun
Indiaman (plural Indiamen)
- (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.
- 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
Further reading
East Indiaman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia