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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"Nay, but this will scarce suffice," cried the shipman.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The old shipman shook his head and crossed himself.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chaucer's shipman, almost the sole representative of the sea in mediaeval English literature, plied a coastwise trade.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
A curse on the shipman," growled Redward to himself, "his tongue will be our undoing.
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
If a shipman shall have been originally a lighterman, none the less he shall remain permanently among those among whom it shall appear that his parents had been.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer
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
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
The shipmen said: ‘We be shent; Here dwellith a geaunt, verament, On his lond are we kest!’
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
When peace was unexpectedly made between Portugal and Algiers in 1793, through the interposition of a British consular officer, a wail of dismay went up to heaven from American shipmen.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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