An associate on the same ship with you

Usage examples of shipmate.

His shipmate from the Bucephalas was known to like a scrap and he might just forget himself and belt the premier, which would result in a hanging.

But he got the impression that a majority of his shipmates probably did not know much about the Cabiri either.

In allowing for her awkwardness, Barnes and Dasi were doing the jobs Daniel and their shipmates expected them to do.

They just walked aft to look, and stood, silent or talking quietly, before the cavern three decks deep of blackened, twisted metal where their shipmates had been blasted out of their young lives.

He added, with a strange shyness, that he had collected William from his home to join him to a ship in Deptford, where they would indeed be shipmates.

There was on board a Hebridean woman named Thorgunna, of whom her shipmates said that she owned some costly things, the like of which would be difficult to find in Iceland.

I told you, some other boys as well as myself, who belonged to the Indiaman, and we kept very much together, not only because we were more of an age, but because we had been shipmates so long.

He found himself sobbing helplessly at the loss of all his shipmates, the realization that he hated Hitler for the first time in a flesh and blood visceral way for causing all this when he could be sitting in a miserable damp drafty factory by the Quinnipiac River in Fair Haven toiling over a Seth Thomas engine and listening to the alcoholic shop supervisor rambling about not taking a full hour for lunch .

Stephen, speaking to a grey-haired seaman from Shelmerston, a shipmate on former voyages and a member of the Sethian community, renowned for truthfulness.

Here I stood, my hair chopped and shaggy, my hands still scarred from the burns in the pod, my clothing more like a medieval forester than a modern spacefarer, and standing here as I was, with my shipmates behind me in very much the same clothing, with the same shag and the same gauntness and the same hopes, I felt prouder than I ever had before.

Ilna knew there was a current because of what the sailors had told her and from the way bubbles of foam slowly drifted right to left, but Nabarbi and Tellura on the portside oars were compensating for it by taking longer strokes than their shipmates to starboard.

Both native Colchians looked uncomfortable, as if realizing they ought to have known better, and to have warned their shipmates in advance.

But all systems were working, the artificial gravity cushioning him and his shipmate against all the gees of acceleration that he poured on.

Grimes had been shipmates she had been a lieutenant while Grimes was only a lowly ensign.

A stale rehash of handball scores was no substitute for seeing the interdivisional games, and electronic checkers with your shipmate was damn sure no substitute for sex.