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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How much further west the Minoan merchantmen sailed remains a matter for speculation: possibly as far as southern Britain.
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Imperial merchantmen traversing the warp would flee at the sighting of one.
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In 1787 he sailed as a subaltern on a merchantman that was wrecked.
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No damage was caused to any of the warships or merchantmen.
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Off Corunna, they encountered a huge Levantine merchantman , and exchanged gun salutes with her.
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Our cog was a sturdy merchantman escorted by a small man-of-war.
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There was a mass of shipping in the port, small skiffs, boats, the huge heavy-bottomed sterns of Hanseatic merchantmen.