shipman
Americannoun
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shipmen
plural
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a sailor.
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the master of a ship.
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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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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 William Lyon Phelps
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
They moved in their seats; the shipman cried out— 'Ay! witchcraft! witchcraft!'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
"Nay, but this will scarce suffice," cried the shipman.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You will bear me out with good Master Witherton of Southampton that I have done all that a shipman might.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Ships were made for traffic and shipmen for trade, and not for such whimsies.’
From Marjorie by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
"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
I looked round on the shipmen in the light of the many shrines.
From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan
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