shipman
Americannoun
plural
shipmen-
a sailor.
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the master of a ship.
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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"The Virgin be praised!" cried the shipman, wiping his brow.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
"A shipman was there, wonned far by west; For aught I wot, he was of Dart�mouth."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
I bought it for two rose nobles from a shipman who came from the Levant.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Have ye ever a penny pie for a poor old shipman, clean destroyed by pirates?
From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis
They were what a compass is to a shipman, taking him straight on his course through the blackest storms.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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