The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipman's card
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.