motorship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of motorship
First recorded in 1900–05
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Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua.
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Three days at sea, the 16,000-ton Polish motorship Batory radioed a routine passenger count back to New York.
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At the Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock.
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It was a dark night 26 miles off New York and the 63 ton motorship Shawnee, bound from Bermuda to Halifax in ballast, plowed through the seas.
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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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