[f. prec. 2.] A vessel engaged in the West India trade.
1689. Treas. P., III. 196 (P.R.O.). The French Fleet has taken 5 dutch West Indiamen that came from Cuiresoe.
1769. Ann. Reg., 161. The steward of a West-Indiaman.
1794. Plan London-Dock, 11. Whether the London-Dock … cannot be of extensive usefulness to West Indiamen…?
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxvii. A voluminous silk handkerchief, like the main-sail of one of his own West-Indiamen.
1861. Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., xx. 393. Compare the numbers of men in a West Indiaman and in a Baltic or Hamburgh trader.
