indiaman

Etymology

From India + -man.

indiaman means A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

noun

A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company.“No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman”