Indiaman
/ˈɪndɪəmən
/noun (plural Indiamen) historical
A ship engaged in trade with India or the East or West Indies, especially an East Indiaman.Her influential friends made special arrangements for her to be shipped to America in comfort, in an Indiaman, saving her from the appalling squalor and dangers of a convict ship....
- The Trades Increase, the Company's first vessel, was almost 1,000 tons and was wrecked in Java on its first voyage, and though its size was exceptional, 800-ton Indiamen were not.
- Even Samuel Pepys, then the surveyor-victualer of the Royal Navy, was unprepared for the cargo he inspected in November 1665 aboard a captured Dutch Indiaman.
Origin
Early 18th century: from India + -man from man-of-war.
- Freeman, Morgan
- freemanship
- freeman's song
- free market
- free marketeer
- free marketeering
- free marketer
- free marriage
- freemartin
- Freemason
- Freemasonic
- Freemasonism
- Freemasonry
- freemen's song
- free-milling
- freemium
- free moisture
- freeness
- free of charge
- free on board (or rail)
- free paper
- free parachute
- free pardon
- free part
- free pass