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shiplord
n. A shipmaster; skipper; captain.
Usage examples of "shiplord".
Instead, the Tosevites seemed to be barbarizing not only the shiplords but all the males of the conquest fleet.
He is probably living as comfortably as anyone could in a not-empire full of Big Uglies, like that shiplord over on the lesser continental mass.
Even the shiplord of the conquest fleet's bannership had to be careful when disagreeing with the fleetlord.
The male a screen window showed was wearing the body paint of a shuttlecraft pilot, not a shiplord.