ship-broker

British  

noun

1. a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters

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Example Sentences

The ship-broker started a little as he glanced at the card and realized Scarterfield's calling.

From Ravensdene Court by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

“List A,” a large leather-bound volume, was brought in and laid upon the table before the ship-broker, who at once opened it, and began to run his fingers slowly down an index.

From The Voyage of the Aurora by Collingwood, Harry

She knew perfectly well that the highest professorship could only earn in a year what an ordinary ship-broker made in a month.

From The Malady of the Century by Nordau, Max Simon

The other is a Frenchman, who, says Mr. Jallanby, the Hull ship-broker, was addressed as Vicomte.

From Ravensdene Court by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

Bertrand, greatly surprised, followed the ship-broker to a lane close by—a dark, solitary locality, which suggested an unpleasant misgiving, very pleasantly relieved by Derville's first words.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Chambers, Robert