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Webster 1913 Edition

Shipman

Ship′man

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Shipmen
.
A seaman, or sailor.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Chaucer. R. Browning.
About midnight the
shipmen
deemed that they drew near to some country.
Acts xxvii. 27.
Shipman’s card
,
the mariner's compass.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Shipman

SHIP'MAN

,
Noun.
[ship and man.] A seaman or sailor. Obs.

Definition 2025

Shipman

Shipman

See also: shipman

English

Proper noun

Shipman

  1. A surname​.

Derived terms

shipman

shipman

See also: Shipman

English

Noun

shipman ‎(plural shipmen)

  1. A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
  2. (obsolete) The master of a ship; shiplord.
  3. A labourer on a ship.

Etymology

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”).

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