Shipmate

"Shipmate" has different meanings to each and every one of us.

CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2003 2003

"Shipmate," says he, shaking his head, "an we sail as brothers and comrades there must be never a secret betwixt us -- speak!"

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Every third man you met in the street, you might safely hail as "Shipmate," or "Skipper," or "Captain."

A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858

[note 2] "Shipmate" is the term by which sailors address one another when not aquainted.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869

"Shipmate," I replied to him, "the hand is sometimes quicker than the eye, and the mind slower than the heart.

The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Emerson Hough 1890

"Shipmate," I answer, solemnly, "He did do all that for you, and such as you, -- and He says all that to you.

The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Shipmate stove me down with a marlin-spike from the main-royal.

THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

Shipmate o 'mine, thinks I, as he stamped back to the house; I was wet with sweat, and it was with profound relief that I saw his carriage leave a few moments later, my half-caste charmer trilling with laughter and the Scourge of the Seas with his hat jammed down and snarling at the coachee.

THE NUMBERS 2010

As we used to tell sailors their first time at sea - "Shipmate, it doesn't really matter how deep the water is if you're drowning."

Carl M. Baxley Jr.: Questions to the General and Some Answers to His Rhetoric 2008

Can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but Robert Graves's book on the Argonauts is great fun - My Shipmate, Hercules - from this perspective.

Glaukopis' 32452346th return, the Lupercale, and Alcestus & Medea 2007