troopship
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How to use troopship in a sentence
I was posted to a battery at Meerut, and warned to be ready to start in an early troopship.
Forty-one years in India | Frederick Sleigh RobertsFeb. 6—United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine, lost.
America's War for Humanity | Thomas Herbert RussellIn the troopship and the Bengal barrack even his official authority could hardly win a hearing from officer or soldier.
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar | George SmithWho of the millions that have undergone the experience will ever forget their first crossing of the Channel in a troopship?
Canada in Flanders, Volume II (of 3) | Lord Max Aitken BeaverbrookA bright sea and sky disfigured by a ring of curling black smoke—a death-screen for the last agonies of a torpedoed troopship.
Merchantmen-at-Arms | David W. Bone
British Dictionary definitions for troopship
/ (ˈtruːpˌʃɪp) /
a ship, usually a converted merchant ship, used to transport military personnel
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