Shipman \Ship"man\, n.; pl. {Shipmen}.
A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer. R. Browning.
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About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near
to some country. --Acts xxvii.
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{Shipman's card}, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] --Shak.
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