shipman
Americannoun
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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 national spirit of enterprise was not dead in any class, from knight to shipman; and faithfulness and chastity in woman were still esteemed the highest though not the universal virtues of her sex.
From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
There he saw daily the shipman of the Canterbury Tales just home in his good ship Maudelayne, with the fascination of unknown lands in his clothes and conversation.
From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph
"He's loose!" this shipman croaked, diving under the table.
From The Martian Cabal by Starzl, Roman Frederick
Pay the shipman to mind the sea, that is all.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by Phelps, William Lyon
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 authorities were unwilling to expose their men to a danger that could not be evaded, however gallant the shipmen or skilled their seamanship.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
Upon the white floor of snow, all the shipmen of Shoreby came clustering in an inky mass, and tailing out rearward in isolated clumps.
From The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Gibbon, Perceval
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