Definition of Shipmen

1. Noun. (plural of shipman) ¹

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Definition of Shipmen

1. shipman [n] - See also: shipman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipmen

shipholders
shiplap
shiplaps
shipless
shiplet
shiplets
shiplike
shipling
shipload
shiploads
shipman
shipmaster
shipmasters
shipmate
shipmates
shipmen (current term)
shipment
shipments
shipowner
shipowners
shippable
shippage
shippe
shipped
shippen
shippens
shipper
shipper weld
shippers
shippes

Literary usage of Shipmen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"shipmen, which climbed now their main-tops, surview That town, in part, of the blue barbare Britons ! Behold, how, in a twilight market-place, Go thronging ..."

2. Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne: Being the Journal by Woodes Rogers (1889)
"... by old shipmen, like Woodes Rogers, for taking altitudes of the sun, moon, pole, stars, &c., before the invention of Hadley's quadrant. ..."

3. A popular commentary on the New Testament by Daniel Denison Whedon (1875)
"Fourteenth night — After their start from Fair Havens, verse 13. lu Adria—The Adriatic sea. Its night the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country ..."

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