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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

Example Sentences

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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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely.

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

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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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