Hypertext Webster Gateway: "merchantmen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Merchantman \Mer"chant*man\, n.; pl. {Merchantmen}.
1. A merchant. [Obs.] --Matt. xiii. 45.
2. A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of
goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.
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