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What is an Indiaman?

What is an Indiaman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company
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Such were the prospects of the two as they sat together in the cabin of the Indiaman locked fast in each other's arms, and crying bitterly.
In their midst the central steeple towers proudly up like the mainmast of some great Indiaman among a fleet of coasters.
It was then British policy to transport convicts in officially naval vessels, although the Calcutta was a big converted East Indiaman with 500 people aboard.
They are now on their passage to Bombay, in an East Indiaman.
The Glutton had been an indiaman, measuring 1400 tons, and had been purchased into the service.
Some Indiaman, ballasted with guilders, you have heard of in shore.

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