tramp steamer

American  

noun

1. tramp.

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Etymology

Origin of tramp steamer

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

In 1950, at 18, Jacques went to sea on a tramp steamer running coal between Dunkirk, France, and Algiers, the capital of Algeria, the rebellious French possession.

From New York Times

This seminal science-fiction movie was in effect a transposition to outer of a Conrad novel about a run-down tramp steamer picking up a lethally dangerous passenger from a remote island.

From The Guardian

A tramp steamer and a few feluccas were moored alongside.

From Project Gutenberg

Crouch had already examined the tramp steamer to learn that she was the "Mondavia"--by a strange chance one of the fleet of Jason, Stileman and May, the very house to which Crouch himself belonged.

From Project Gutenberg

The captain of the tramp steamer Orient told him the same tale he had told the other reporters: he had picked up a man at sea.

From Project Gutenberg