factory ship

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   a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea

   Broaderwhaler

Questions about factory ship

What does factory ship mean?

factory ship means "a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea".

Is factory ship a common word?

factory ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.