Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Shipman
Ship′man (·măn), 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.