shipmate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a fellow member of a ship's crew or a person traveling on the same ship

   A sailor may throw cargo overboard to protect both himself and his shipmate.

2. 2
   noun

   a familiar form of address used by one sailor to another

   The captain called, "Shipmate, secure that line."

A compound of ship + mate, with mate in its sense "companion or associate."

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