slave ship

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   a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage

   Broadership

Questions about slave ship

What does slave ship mean?

slave ship means "a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage".

Is slave ship a common word?

slave 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.