treasure ship

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   a 16th-century ship loaded with treasure

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Questions about treasure ship

What does treasure ship mean?

treasure ship means "a 16th-century ship loaded with treasure".

Is treasure ship a common word?

treasure 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.