The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipman \Ship"man\, n.; pl. Shipmen.
A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic]
--Chaucer. R. Browning.
About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near
to some country.
--Acts xxvii.
27.
Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A seaman or sailor; a mariner. 2 (context obsolete English) The master of a ship; shiplord. 3 A labourer on a ship.
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Housing Units (2000): 273
Land area (2000): 1.320976 sq. miles (3.421311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.013297 sq. miles (0.034438 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.334273 sq. miles (3.455749 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69563
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.118240 N, 90.043506 W
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Wikipedia
Shipman is a 2002 ITV television drama film, about the life and crimes of serial killer Harold Shipman. The film was directed by Roger Bamford and written by Michael Eaton.
Usage examples of "shipman".
His statement is not inconsistent with the possibility that he had the hunter Shipman chiefly in mind as the prototype of Leather-Stocking, with some characteristics added from other hunters, of whom there were many in the early days of Cooperstown.
Strangely enough, the matter in dispute has not been the identity of Shipman with Leather-Stocking, but the identity of Shipman himself.
It has been claimed that Cooper borrowed not only the character but the Christian name of Nathaniel Shipman, a famous hunter and trapper, who came to Otsego Lake at the time of the Revolutionary War, and made his home in a cave on the border of the lake until about 1805.
According to the discoverers of this original of Leather-Stocking, Nathaniel Shipman was a close friend of the Mohican Indians, and fought with them against the French and the Canadian Indians.
In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution Shipman was a well known settler of Hoosick, northeast of Albany and near the border of Vermont, where he had built him a cabin on the banks of the Walloomsac.
Soon after this event Nathaniel Shipman disappeared from Hoosick, and not even his own family knew whither he had gone.
Ryan went to Otsego Lake, and, having found the hunter, learned that he was indeed Nathaniel Shipman who had disappeared from Hoosick at the time of the Revolutionary War.
Nathaniel Shipman died at the Ryan home in 1809, and his grave is in the old burying ground on Main Street in Hoosick Falls.
The local tradition in Cooperstown does not recognize Nathaniel Shipman of Hoosick Falls.
David Shipman served in the American army in the Revolutionary War, and was a member of the Fourteenth Regiment of Albany county militia under Col.
David Shipman returned to his old home in the Fly Creek valley, and lived there for several years.
It is quite possible, however, that the cave near Point Judith is the one referred to in the tradition of Nathaniel Shipman of Hoosick Falls.
This testimony seems to point to the Hoosick Shipman, who having deserted his family for twenty-six years, might easily pass for a bachelor in Otsego, and who is said to have lived in a cave, concerning which nothing is mentioned in the traditions of David Shipman.
I bought it for two rose nobles from a shipman who came from the Levant.
Francewards, and the shipman walked the deck, a peaceful master-mariner once more.