shipman
Americannoun
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shipmen
plural
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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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Pay the shipman to mind the sea, that is all.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
I bought it for two rose nobles from a shipman who came from the Levant.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
Studies Studies, for other be the maners of the rustical, then of the lawyer, of the marchaunte, then of the Soldier, of the shipman then of the phisicion.
From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt
Have ye ever a penny pie for a poor old shipman, clean destroyed by pirates?
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
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 John Masefield
And from the ocean-green of myrtle’s shadow Rose a pavilion, which from afar Seemed to the eyes of shipmen as a star Shattered on a distant meadow.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
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