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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I will draw neere, and with fayre pleasing shew, 720 Wellcome great Pompey as the Siren doth The wandering shipman with her charming song.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
If any shipman shall have obtained surreptitiously or in any other way immunity, it is our will that he be not at all admitted to plead any exemption.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer
The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf185 He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
Here, then, Chaucer would loiter to study the natural history of the English shipman, full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
Chaucer's shipman, almost the sole representative of the sea in mediaeval English literature, plied a coastwise trade.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
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
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
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let the boat into the sea .
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
"We heard from our friends on board that scurvy had broken out among the shipmen," said Carver motioning Standish to hold his peace.
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
It included shipmen and all the necessary furniture of war.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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