Definition of "shipman" []

• A sailor. (noun)
• A shipmaster. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He's no fred and rose west or harold shipman, he just made a childish phonecall."
• "The voyage for me is almost over: I am in sight of port: like a good shipman, I have already sent down the lofty spars and housed the captious canvas in preparation for the long anchorage: I have little now to fear."
• "Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life."