shipman
Americannoun
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shipmen
plural
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a sailor.
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the master of a ship.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected 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
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One had been all his life a shipman, and continued to the last to lament his man Tom.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
"I should have known it," said the shipman.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"An old shipman whom I know, one Master Collings, of Gosport, used to say that swimming was a useless art, for when a man fell overboard his agony was only unduly prolonged."
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
I bought it for two rose nobles from a shipman who came from the Levant.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Calvert and Captain Robert Coogan, 48, commandant of the brigade of mid shipmen, encourage their charges to question the rules they live by.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last they found a small tavern where a dozen shipmen sprawled on the earthen floor, and a gaping host was just quenching his last lamp.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
From the street below came noise enough, and loud voices of sailors and shipmen in many a foreign tongue.
From Pirate Gold by Frederic Jesup Stimson
He made to advance on them, those two square old shipmen; he projected a general ruin; but his feet were not his own.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
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