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- noun Plural form of
shipmaster .
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Examples
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Quasi-delictual, also, were the obligations of persons employed in a public calling, such as shipmasters and innkeepers, for the wrongful acts of their servants.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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These latter, however, are not restricted to those literally "shipmasters," &c., but mainly refer, in the mystical sense, to all who share in the spiritual traffic of apostate Christendom.
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I can understand why shipmasters, with a favouring slant of wind, have left sailors, fallen overboard, to drown without heaving-to to lower a boat.
CHAPTER XXXVII 2010
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But Captain Davenport refused to be comforted, and by the light of a lantern read up the chapter in his Epitome that related to the strategy of shipmasters in cyclonic storms.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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It had taken thirty minutes to wear ship, and I had learned how the best of shipmasters can lose their ships without reproach.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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But of late years all shipmasters have accepted the hugging of the land all the way around.
CHAPTER XXXVII 2010
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Also, he said that he knew of shipmasters who had made forty voyages around the Horn and had never once had the luck to win through the straits.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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Neither could shipmasters be trusted with sensitive mail.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Neither could shipmasters be trusted with sensitive mail.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Neither could shipmasters be trusted with sensitive mail.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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