shipman
noun
a sailor.
shipmen
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pluralof shipman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
"But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country—" The intuition of seamanship.
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Through that portal and Lisbon might flow a golden tide for American farmers and shipmen.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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
