Definition of "merchanter" [merchanter]

• A merchantman. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "With a sprightliness that belies his appearance, the merchanter is the first to leave the firewagon."
• "Alcidas and his Spartan pirates took off the next morning, where, no one knew, and Phrynus was thrown in the hold of a merchanter that made its cautious way out of Myonnesus."
• "The next starship turns out to be not a scheduled merchanter but the "spook ship" Loki, on an unspecified priority mission."