The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
Shipman
A surname.
• -manship, Manship, manship, shimpan
shipman (plural shipmen)
A seaman or sailor; a mariner.
(obsolete) The master of a ship; shiplord.
A labourer on a ship.
• -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
6 June 2025
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.