Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sailor.
- noun A shipmaster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
- noun The master of a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Poetic A seaman, or sailor.
- noun [Obs.] the mariner's compass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
seaman orsailor ; amariner . - noun obsolete The
master of a ship;shiplord . - noun A
labourer on aship .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He's no fred and rose west or harold shipman, he just made a childish phonecall.
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The voyage for me is almost over: I am in sight of port: like a good shipman, I have already sent down the lofty spars and housed the captious canvas in preparation for the long anchorage: I have little now to fear.
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Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life.
New Author Interview: Nicholas Christopher author of "The Bestiary" 2007
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He admitted to forcing himself on a Naval Academy mid-shipman and having sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing his HIV infection.
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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The mother of three is accused of attacking shipman in the airport parking lot, burning her face with pepper sprayed.
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Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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The shipman eyed him steadily, careful not to make any move toward the long knife in his belt.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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My name is Tito, licensed master-shipman of the ports of Argos.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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My name is Tito, licensed master-shipman of the ports of Argos.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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