Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The official before whom sailors engaged for a voyage sign the articles of agreement, and in whose presence they are paid off when the voyage is finished.
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Examples
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A blackbirder, my boy, is a shipping-master who furnishes contract labor to the plantations at so much a head.
The House Without a Key Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1925
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A blackbirder, my boy, is a shipping-master who furnishes contract labor to the plantations at so much a head.
The House Without a Key Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1925
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The shipping-master answered him in a way which the boy did not understand, and advised him to ship.
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Upon asking where the ship was going, he was told by the shipping-master that she was bound to California.
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He was just turning the corner of a street, when the shipping-master, who had been in search of him, popped upon him, seized him, and carried him on board.
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Archie's the most sensitive shipping-master in the two hemispheres.
Lord Jim 1899
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'It appears he addressed himself in the first instance to the principal shipping-master.
Lord Jim 1899
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Archie's the most sensitive shipping-master in the two hemispheres.
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890
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'It appears he addressed himself in the first instance to the principal shipping-master.
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890
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But he was full of his recalled experiences on board the _Ferndale_, and the strangeness of being mixed up in what went on aboard, simply because his name was also the name of a shipping-master, kept him in a state of wonder which made other coincidences, however unlikely, not so very surprising after all.
Chance Joseph Conrad 1890
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