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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.