shipman (1390)
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shipman (1390)

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[gdw]

[ FEW: ∅; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED:  shipman n.; MED:  ship-man n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
schipman, 
pl. shipmen  
ls(loanword: M.E. )
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s.

1 ship. occupation seaman, sailor: 
( 1406-07 )  pur le vitaler et .vj. shipmen .xxij. s.  8 Henry IV
( 1415 ) un obligacion de un John Grype, schipman, obligez a un Margaret Caylley  100
( 1431 )  come un Lowys Johan de Fowy en le countee de Cornewaill, shipman, par le noun de Lowys Johan soulement [...] fuist utlagé  iv 372
mestre shipman
1 ship. occupation status commander or owner of a ship: 
( 1390 )  mariners [...] soleient prendre pur lour travaille en niefs, pur passer hors d'Engleterre vers Burdeux, et pur retourner en Engleterre ou autres parties dela, oept soldz, et le fraghte d'un tonelle; et meistre shipman sesze souldz, et fraghte de deux tonelx a plus  iii 283
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