Shipmen

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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