'Shipman's card' definitions:

Definition of 'Shipman's card'

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  • Shipman \Ship"man\, n.; pl. Shipmen. A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer. R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
  • About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. --Acts xxvii. 27. [1913 Webster]
  • Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]