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motorship

American  
[moh-ter-ship] / ˈmoʊ tərˌʃɪp /

noun

  1. a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.


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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Hans Hedtoft, a diesel-powered motorship, went down the ways of Denmark's Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of the Atlantic's grey mists one overcast afternoon last week emerged a snug, grey-hulled motorship with red, white and blue striping on her two buff funnels, gay bunting flapping from her halyards.

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Three days at sea, the 16,000-ton Polish motorship Batory radioed a routine passenger count back to New York.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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