shipmen
- plural of shipman.
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
And if shipmen go but a little way into it they are carried rapidly downward, and never return again.
From Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Forbes, George
"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 Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)
These were kindly fellows, always ready for a yarn with the shipmen who brought their goods from Port Royal.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John
