Boat and Merchant ship

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Boat noun - A large craft for travel by water.

Usage example: you'll have to take a passenger boat to get to the island

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Merchant ship and boat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Merchant ship" instead a noun "Boat".

Nearby Words: boatload, boating, boater, boated, boatyard

Merchant ship noun - A cargo ship.

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Boat and merchant ship are semantically related. You can use "Boat" instead a noun phrase "Merchant ship".

One day, a boat of theirs heads out, and returns, having "impressed" (that is to say, kidnapped) three new sailors off of a humble British merchant ship, the Rights O' Man.

Source: Theatre / Billy Budd
The Doggerbank, a formerly British merchant ship used by the German navy for covert operations, was sunk by a U-boat mistaking it for a British ship, with loss of all but one of the crew.

Source: Friend or Foe
A German U-boat mistook a passenger liner running without lights for an armed merchant ship... You get the idea.

Source: Works Set in World War II

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