Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A sailor.
- n. A shipmaster.
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- n. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
- n. The master of a ship; shiplord.
- n. A labourer on a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A seaman, or sailor.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
- n. The master of a ship.
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.
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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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The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
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The shipman eyed him steadily, careful not to make any move toward the long knife in his belt.
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My name is Tito, licensed master-shipman of the ports of Argos.
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To be a good shipman meant mastering the countless minute but important elements of lifezone regulation, of pressures and flows, of servos and engines.
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A local shipman in Long Beach assures me that Mr. Florez, despite his forty years, is here
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