motorship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of motorship
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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They attend church services on the West German motorship Nordwind and watch movies on the Bulgarian freighter Vasil Levsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three days at sea, the 16,000-ton Polish motorship Batory radioed a routine passenger count back to New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock.
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"Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea.
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Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua.
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