SHIPMAN

Etymology

Proper noun

Shipman

A surname.

Anagrams

• -manship, Manship, manship, shimpan

Etymology

Noun

shipman (plural shipmen)

A seaman or sailor; a mariner.

(obsolete) The master of a ship; shiplord.

A labourer on a ship.

Anagrams

• -manship, Manship, manship, shimpan

Source: Wiktionary


Ship"man, n.; pl. Shipmen (.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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