Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shipman \Ship"man\, 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.