coffin ship

noun

A ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high death rate onboard.

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Meanings

nouncoffin ship (plural coffin ships)

plural coffin ships

  1. historicalA ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high death rate onboard.
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