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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sailor.
  2. n. A shipmaster.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
  2. n. The master of a ship.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
  2. n. obsolete The master of a ship; shiplord.
  3. n. A labourer on a ship.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Obs. or Poetic A seaman, or sailor.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English schipman, from Old English scipmann ("shipman, mariner, sailor, rower; one who goes on trading voyages; pirate"), equivalent to ship +‎ man. Cognate with Icelandic skipmaður, skipamaður ("shipman"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “He's no fred and rose west or harold shipman, he just made a childish phonecall.”

    Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross and the credit crunch

  • “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.”

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions

  • “Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life.”

    Archive 2007-09-01

  • “He admitted to forcing himself on a Naval Academy mid-shipman and having sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing his HIV infection.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007

  • “UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The mother of three is accused of attacking shipman in the airport parking lot, burning her face with pepper sprayed.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2007

  • “The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.”

    The Dark Tower

  • “The shipman eyed him steadily, careful not to make any move toward the long knife in his belt.”

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian

  • “My name is Tito, licensed master-shipman of the ports of Argos.”

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian

  • “To be a good shipman meant mastering the countless minute but important elements of lifezone regulation, of pressures and flows, of servos and engines.”

    Tides Of Light

  • “A local shipman in Long Beach assures me that Mr. Florez, despite his forty years, is here”

    With Friends Like These...

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