motorship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of motorship
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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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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Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua.
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A new volcanic island has risen in the Pacific, reported Captain L. G. Richardson of the British motorship Silverbeech last week.
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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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They attend church services on the West German motorship Nordwind and watch movies on the Bulgarian freighter Vasil Levsky.
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