SHIPMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipmate mean? 

• SHIPMATE (noun)
  The noun SHIPMATE has 1 sense:

1. an associate on the same ship with you

  Familiarity information: SHIPMATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An associate on the same ship with you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shipmate" is a kind of...):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

 Context examples 

“Well, shipmate,” said Gray, “mad he may not be; but if HE'S not, you mark my words, I am.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Trevor mumbled something to us about having been shipmate with the man when he was going back to the diggings, and then, leaving us on the lawn, he went indoors.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whenever he encountered a chance shipmate, and there were many in San Francisco, he treated them and was treated in turn, as of old, but he ordered for himself root beer or ginger ale and good-naturedly endured their chaffing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Well, I reckon it's about the blessed same to me, shipmate,” he replied; “so it's strong, and plenty of it, what's the odds?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Cap'n, said he at length with that same uncomfortable smile, here's my old shipmate, O'Brien; s'pose you was to heave him overboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Aye, here it is: 'Capt. Kidd's Anchorage'—just the name my shipmate called it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If you like the service, well, you'll jine; and if you don't, Jim, why, you're free to answer no—free and welcome, shipmate; and if fairer can be said by mortal seaman, shiver my sides!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I returned with the rum, they were already seated on either side of the captain's breakfast-table—Black Dog next to the door and sitting sideways so as to have one eye on his old shipmate and one, as I thought, on his retreat.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)