"Indiaman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From India + -man.",
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          "ref": "1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings:",
          "text": "No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman",
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          "ref": "1924 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes”, in Memories and Adventures, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 110:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company."
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        "(nautical) A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company."
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