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cargo liner

American  
Or cargoliner

noun

  1. a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.


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This week the first U.S. ship, the 9,277-ton cargo liner President Jackson, is due to pass through, and two U.S. oil companies notified the State Department that their tankers would soon follow.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few hours later, flying Canadian Pacific's red & white checkered flag, the black-hulled, 10,000-ton cargo liner S.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

By Monday afternoon it was revealed that the Lindberghs had sailed on the U. S. Lines' small American Importer, a cargo liner of 7,590 tons.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are the plans for a new cargo liner.

From The Misplaced Battleship by Schoenherr, John

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