of Shipman
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1. The act of putting any thing on board of another ship or vessel; embarkation; as, he engaged in the shipment of coal for London.
2. The goods or things shipped, or put on board of another ship or vessel. We say, the merchants have made large shipments to the United States.
3. The question is whether the share of M in the shipment is exempted from the condemnation by reason of his nuetral domicil. J. Story .
4. In English history , the imosition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs and counties of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. This imosition being laid by the king's writ under the great seal, without the consent of the parliament, was held to contrary to the laws and statutes of th erealm, and abolished by Stat. 17 Car. 11.
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But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.