Ship"board` (?), n. [Ship + board. See Board, n., 8] A ship's side;
hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as,
on shipboard; a shipboard.
Ship"build`er (?), n. A person whose occupation is to construct ships
and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
Ship"build`ing, n. Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships
and other vessels.
Ship"ful (?), n.; pl. Shipfuls (&?;). As much or as many as a ship will
hold; enough to fill a ship.
Ship"hold`er (?), n. A shipowner.
Ship"less, a. Destitute of ships. Gray.
Ship"let (?), n. A little ship. [R.] Holinshed.
Ship"load` (?), n. The load, or cargo, of a ship.
Ship"man (?), n.; pl. Shipmen (&?;). A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or
Poetic] Chaucer. R. Browning.
About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some
country.
Acts xxvii. 27.
Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] Shak.
Ship"mas`ter (?), n. The captain, master, or commander of a ship. Jonah
i. 6.
Ship"mate` (?), n. One who serves on board of the same ship with
another; a fellow sailor.
Ship"ment (?), n. 1. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged
in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from
the West.