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Definition of Shipmen
1. shipman [n] - See also: shipman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipmen
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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