INDIAMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indiaman mean? 

• INDIAMAN (noun)
  The noun INDIAMAN has 1 sense:

1. a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India

  Familiarity information: INDIAMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Indiaman" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

 Context examples 

She had now seen all that were at home; there remained only two brothers between herself and Susan, one of whom was a clerk in a public office in London, and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He sat down; for half-an-hour we never spoke; neither he to me nor I to him: that interval past, he recommenced—Jane, I go in six weeks; I have taken my berth in an East Indiaman which sails on the 20th of June.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Indiaman in distress; and you shall go there another day, and find them deep in the evidence, pro and con, respecting a clergyman who has misbehaved himself; and you shall find the judge in the nautical case, the advocate in the clergyman's case, or contrariwise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Mills had sailed, and Dora and I had gone aboard a great East Indiaman at Gravesend to see her; and we had had preserved ginger, and guava, and other delicacies of that sort for lunch; and we had left Miss Mills weeping on a camp-stool on the quarter-deck, with a large new diary under her arm, in which the original reflections awakened by the contemplation of Ocean were to be recorded under lock and key.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)