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    indiaman


    1. What the gross revenue of those territorial acquisitions was supposed to amount to, has already been mentioned ; and by an account brought by the Cruttenden East Indiaman in 1769, the neat revenue, clear of all deductions and military charges, was stated at two millions forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-seven pounds


    2. event is the discovery on April 1, 2010 of a 500 year old Portuguese Indiaman


    3. ’Twas clear I should ne’er inherit anythin’ but me Father’s Affectations—fer me Brothers—damn ’em all—were too disgustin’ly healthy, so I early conceiv’d the Fancy o’ runnin’ away to Sea, an’ at not much above thirteen Years o’ Age I ran away with a Strollin’ Player I met at a Country Fair, journey’d to London with him, bound meself as a ’Prentice to a Ship’s Surgeon an’ shipp’d out on a West Indiaman, headed, I thought, fer Jamaica


    4. East Indiaman which sails on the 20th of June


    5. She had now seen all that were at home; there remained only two brothers between herself and Susan, one of whom was a clerk in a public office in London, and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman


    6. As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin


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    "indiaman" definitions

    a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India