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shipkeepers

shipkeepers is the plural of shipkeeper.

Meaning of shipkeeper

Noun

shipkeeper (plural shipkeepers)

  1. A caretaker of a ship when its crew is away.
    • … and when the ship is like the one now in question, not being navigated, but laid up in dock, there is the additional possibility that the shipkeeper may be the servant of the dock company, or the ship's broker, or any one else with whom the owners may have made an arrangement to keep his ship for...1866, Max Robertson, editor, English Reports Annotated, volume 2, part 1, London: The Reports and Digest Syndicate, Ltd., pages 1986-1987

Questions about shipkeepers

What is shipkeepers the plural of?
Shipkeepers is the plural of shipkeeper.

Words near shipkeepers in the dictionary

  1. shipholders
  2. shipholding
  3. Shipibo
  4. Shiping
  5. shipkeeper
  6. shipkeepers
  7. shipkeeping
  8. shipkiller
  9. shipkillers
  10. Shiplake
  11. shiplap

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