Definition of shipmaster in English:
shipmaster
nounˈʃɪpmɑːstəˈʃɪpˌmæstər
A ship's captain.
Example sentencesExamples
- They were carried before the Governor, with the shipmaster and the supercargo.
- The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
- The shipmasters knew the way only by memory, and would never tell where the people really came from.
- The origin of the museum was the East India Marine Society, founded in 1799 by shipmasters and supercargoes who had collectively amassed 4300 objects made in the Orient.
- He was a Harwich shipmaster and First World War hero executed by the Germans.
- Later in his life, Palmer also won wealth and fame as a pioneer clipper shipmaster and designer.
Definition of shipmaster in US English:
shipmaster
nounˈʃɪpˌmæstərˈSHipˌmastər
A ship's captain.
Example sentencesExamples
- The origin of the museum was the East India Marine Society, founded in 1799 by shipmasters and supercargoes who had collectively amassed 4300 objects made in the Orient.
- The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
- He was a Harwich shipmaster and First World War hero executed by the Germans.
- Later in his life, Palmer also won wealth and fame as a pioneer clipper shipmaster and designer.
- The shipmasters knew the way only by memory, and would never tell where the people really came from.
- They were carried before the Governor, with the shipmaster and the supercargo.