Definition of Merchantmen

1. Noun. (plural of merchantman) ¹

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Definition of Merchantmen

1. merchantman [n] - See also: merchantman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merchantmen

merchant prince
merchant princes
merchant ship
merchant ships
merchant vessels
merchantability
merchantable
merchanted
merchantess
merchantesses
merchantile
merchanting
merchantlike
merchantly
merchantman
merchantmen (current term)
merchantries
merchantry
merchants
merchantwoman
merchantwomen
merchaundise
merchaundize
merchaunt
merches
merchet
merchets
merchildren
merciable

Literary usage of Merchantmen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Ind 85:329-30 Mr 6 '16 Good and bad armed merchantmen. Lit Digest 52:1266-7 My 6 '16 ... Outlook 112:421-4 F 23 '16 Armed merchantmen as submarine prey. ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Further, enemy merchantmen at sea could at the outbreak of war be captured and ... As regards enemy merchantmen in the harbours of the belligerents, ..."

3. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"The Same as to the Right of Armed British merchantmen to Enter Neutral Ports. The question of the status of defensively armed merchantmen, as distinguished ..."

4. America's Case Against Germany by Lindsay Rogers (1917)
"The British Embassy at Washington informed the Secretary of State that a certain number of merchantmen had been armed, but solely for defense, ..."

5. International Law Applied to the Russo-Japanese War: With the Decisions of by Sakuyé Takahashi (1908)
"CHAPTER I. THE SINKING OF merchantmen. Now to proceed to the chapter on the sinking of merchantmen. At the very outset, the reader's attention should be ..."

6. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"PHILIP MARSHALL BROWN THE RIGHT TO ATTACK UNARMED SUBMARINE merchantmen THE arrival at Baltimore, in July last, of the SS Deutschland, an unarmed submarine ..."

7. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"A war vessel is obliged to come Into contact with enemy merchantmen in a peaceful manner. It has to waylay the vessel by certain signals, to enter Into ..."

8. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1892)
"Scores of American merchants made haste to enjoy this privilege, and great fleets of merchantmen were soon passing back and forth between the island and New ..."

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