tramp steamer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tramp steamer
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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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 • Sep. 26, 2019
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 • Jun. 2, 2012
Pellegrini, big French tramp steamer, left her native waters.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m going round the world on a tramp steamer, like the fellow who wrote this book.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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