merchantmen
- plural of merchantman.
Example Sentences
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At his command, the Navy fought and won a number of battles with French warships harassing American merchantmen in the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The rafts and lifeboats kept banging into the windward side of the waiting merchantmen; hour after hour the arduous task continued, until at last all the living and dead were hauled aboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, Egyptian ships have been patrolling the strait, mines have been laid there, and a small fleet of merchantmen is tied up in the Israeli port of Eilat as a result.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ninety nine percent" of the merchantmen got through safely.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw many other ships as well: fishing boats, lumbering merchantmen, proud galleys with their oars lashing the waves into white foam.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
