Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sailor.
- n. A shipmaster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
- n. The master of a ship.
Wiktionary
- n. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
- n. obsolete The master of a ship; shiplord.
- n. A labourer on a ship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Obs. or Poetic A seaman, or sailor.
Etymologies
- 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.”
“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.”
“Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life.”
“He admitted to forcing himself on a Naval Academy mid-shipman and having sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing his HIV infection.”
“UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The mother of three is accused of attacking shipman in the airport parking lot, burning her face with pepper sprayed.”
“The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.”
“The shipman eyed him steadily, careful not to make any move toward the long knife in his belt.”
“My name is Tito, licensed master-shipman of the ports of Argos.”
“To be a good shipman meant mastering the countless minute but important elements of lifezone regulation, of pressures and flows, of servos and engines.”
“A local shipman in Long Beach assures me that Mr. Florez, despite his forty years, is here”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shipman’.
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ship phrases /words
how ship is used
shipway, great ship, king's ship, ship-accounts, ship-agent, ship-based, ship-beak, ship-bearer, ship-bearing, ship-beer, ship-bell, ship-beset and 229 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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