merchantman

The stranger came bowling down under full sail and fired a gun as a hint for the supposed merchantman to stop.

We will give him two more broadsides with grape through his stern windows, and then bear up after that lumbering merchantman.

Later on engaged a pirate brigantine, the Agile, of ten guns, which had just captured a Spanish merchantman.

A stately merchantman with snowy canvas was entering the Gate.

“She is the very merchantman we saw yesterday, or I am much mistaken,” observed the commander.