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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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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

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

These are the plans for a new cargo liner.

From The Misplaced Battleship by Schoenherr, John