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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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
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
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
"Have the gods given these shipmen such an idea as to fight the Lydians with cavalry?"
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
