Indiaman

English Etymology From en India man. Noun Indiamen en nautical A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company. en 1841 w:Thomas Babington Macaulay Warren Hastings No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes 110 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. Derived terms en West Indiaman Further reading East Indiaman en Watercraft