shipmastern.
1. The master, captain, or commander of a ship; formerly also, a pilot, steersman.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 447/1 Schypmayster, nauclerus.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 246 As þe schypmayster redyly sterith þe schyp whan he seeth nede.
c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 368 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 80 Ay wes þe schipmaster gowand a-pon þe laydy brycht of ble.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxi. f. 272 The shypmaister pursued vs with a great meyny of shypmen.
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle vii. sig. Dvj When a greate tempeste aryseth in the sea, then doth it appeare whether the shypmaster be connynge in rulynge the sterne or no.
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 85v An Epitaphe, of an excellent Ship~master, or Pilote.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 76 The stout-hearted and well-minded Ship-masters and Marriners.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 24/2 His Ship-Masters had much more need of..some Knowledge of the Stars..than the Greeks.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 634 The shipmaster of a British ship must be a British subject.
1878 T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 240 In Great Britain no shipmaster is permitted to use an anchor which has not been tested and stamped with a government mark.
2. A man who owns the ship which he commands.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > who is also owner
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1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §6 Bottoms wherof..Straungers borne then bee Owners Shipmasters or Parte Owners.
1896 Peterson Mag. (N.S.) 6 296/2 Rising to the command of a ship and a ship-master in his adopted city.
1909 H. M. Gwatkin Early Church Hist. II. 60 Marcion of Sinope..was a well-to-do shipmaster.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > art or science of
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1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 5 Who were long enough after Noahs Arke..to haue some auncestors in shipmastry and many fellowes.
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