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 shelf185 He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
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
In the meanwhile Dick turned to the old shipman, who had seemed equally indifferent to his condemnation and to his subsequent release.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"I should have known it," said the shipman.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Oh, an official visit—is that it?" asked shipman Hayes, favoring the official visitor with a baby-stare.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
The orphan received the sack of gold, took leave of the merchant, and went to the strand, where the shipmen were.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
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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