shipman
Americannoun
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a sailor.
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the master of a ship.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of shipman
before 900; Middle English; Old English scipman; cognate with Middle Dutch schipman, German Schiff ( s ) mann. See ship 1 -man
Example Sentences
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The shipman away from his ship, the monk away from his cloister, the scholar away from his books, become interesting instead of remaining commonplace, because the contrasts become marked which exist between them.
From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
Pay the shipman to mind the sea, that is all.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
You will bear me out with good Master Witherton of Southampton that I have done all that a shipman might.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
"A shipman was there, wonned far by west; For aught I wot, he was of Dart�mouth."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
"We cannot win back to her, lest we show our flank to these others," said the shipman.
From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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