indiaman in English
noun
1
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.
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1. (Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen) Indiaman in distress; and you shall go there another day, and find them deep in the evidence, pro and con, respecting a clergyman who has misbehaved himself; and you shall find the judge in the nautical case, the advocate in the clergyman's case, or Contrariwise.