shipmanship

noun

shipmanship

noun

Etymology From shipman + -ship.

1

Nautical, Transport The role or skills of a shipman.

  • […] her rôle was not to encumber the party with easels, but to sit and admire our shipmanship on seas high or low as the case might be.1952, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 272, page 24:
  • […] the marine superintendent, for which ex-shipmanship can be a requirement […]2013, Costas Grammenos, The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business, page 591:

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