indiaman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company.
Example Sentences
- "No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman"
- "Buried treasures are naturally among the problems which have come to Mr. [Sherlock] Holmes. One genuine case was accompanied by a diagram here reproduced. [...] Each Indiaman in those days had its own semaphore code, and it is conjectured that the three marks upon the left are signals from a three-armed semaphore."