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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun ; pl. Guineamen (-men). A ship used in trading to the coast of Guinea.
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chained_bear commented on the word guineaman
"For weeks she had cruised waters that spawned the slavers, and she fit in quite well. Her size and her speed, and the rake of her masts, were a lot like those of a 'Guineaman,' one of those ships from the Guinea coast with their cargoes of captive Africans."
—Buckner F. Melton, Jr., A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers (New York and London: Free Press, 2003), 91–92.
April 26, 2009