shipmate

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ship·mate

(shĭp′māt′)

A sailor serving on the same ship as another; a fellow sailor.

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shipmate

(ˈʃɪpˌmeɪt)

(Nautical Terms) a sailor who serves on the same ship as another

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ship•mate

(ˈʃɪpˌmeɪt)

n.

a person who serves with another on the same vessel.

[1740–50]

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Noun

shipmate - an associate on the same ship with you

associate - a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"

Translations

compagno di bordo

shipmate

[ˈʃɪpmeɪt] N → compañero/a m/f de tripulación

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

shipmate

[ˈʃɪpmeɪt] n → compagnon de bord(compagne)m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shipmate

[ˈʃɪpˌmeɪt] n → compagno di bordo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"Come, Bill, you know me; you know an old shipmate, Bill, surely," said the stranger.

"Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the Admiral Benbow inn.

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Harris wanted to cable his mother--thought it his duty to do that, as he was all she had in this world--so, while he attended to this, I went down to the longest and finest raft and hailed the captain with a hearty "Ahoy, shipmate!" which put us upon pleasant terms at once, and we entered upon business.

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On his way home he met an old shipmate, and took a long walk with him.

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Yet, notwithstanding the familiarity of sailors with all sorts of curious adventure, the incidents recorded in the following pages have often served, when 'spun as a yarn,' not only to relieve the weariness of many a night-watch at sea, but to excite the warmest sympathies of the author's shipmates. He has been, therefore, led to think that his story could scarcely fail to interest those who are less familiar than the sailor with a life of adventure.

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. This Marble Is here placed by their surviving Shipmates.

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I could, in a way, considering that they were friends and shipmates, understand Spider and Whisky Bob being asked to drink; but why should the longshoremen, Bill Kelley and Soup Kennedy, be asked?

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He noticed the bad grammar used by his shipmates, and made a point of mentally correcting and reconstructing their crudities of speech.

He felt a sharp gradation between himself and his shipmates, and was wise enough to realize that the difference lay in potentiality rather than achievement.

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Jackson through inability of his shipmates to pronounce the name he had signed on the ship's articles.

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He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.

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Upon the whole, I think he was one of the most uncomfortable shipmates possible for a young commander.