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shipmate

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ship·mate  (shpmt)
n.
A sailor serving on the same ship as another; a fellow sailor.
shipmate
Noun
a sailor who serves on the same ship as another
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Noun1.shipmateshipmate - an associate on the same ship with you
associate - a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"


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Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the Admiral Benbow inn.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
On being asked where this old shipmate lived, he was unable to give any satisfactory reply.
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I only stood at the door, one night--on the lower step there--while a shipmate of mine looked in to speak to your father.
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