Meaning of West Indiaman | Babel Free
Definitions
A merchant vessel trading between Europe and the West Indies (including the Americas). Generally smaller than the similar East Indiamen.
Examples
“In Joshua Kelly's Treatise on Navigation, of the former date⟳ [1757], an instance is related of a West Indiaman drifted, during two days of dead calm, forty-six miles northward, across the mouth of the British Channel.”
“[P]iloted down the Thames, drifting with the tides along that central highway of trade⟳, she floated past West Indiamen loaded with sugar and rum from the Caribbean[.])”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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