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
Example Sentences
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The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
"Oh, an official visit—is that it?" asked shipman Hayes, favoring the official visitor with a baby-stare.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
One had been all his life a shipman, and continued to the last to lament his man Tom.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Studies Studies, for other be the maners of the rustical, then of the lawyer, of the marchaunte, then of the Soldier, of the shipman then of the phisicion.
From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt
"You have not altogether forgot my boy, Jack, that went a shipman in the Green Dragon upon a voyage into Barbary, two year since."
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
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
The orphan received the sack of gold, took leave of the merchant, and went to the strand, where the shipmen were.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
Loud soundeth the boat, 25 The shouting of shipmen.
From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various
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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