'Merchant ship' definitions:
Definition of 'merchant ship'
From: WordNet
noun
A cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship]
Definition of 'Merchant ship'
From: GCIDE
- Merchant \Mer"chant\, a. Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service. [1913 Webster]
- Merchant bar, Merchant iron or Merchant steel, certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.
- Merchant service or Merchant marine, the mercantile marine of a country. --Am. Cyc.
- Merchant ship, a ship employed in commerce.
- Merchant tailor, a tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes. [1913 Webster]