Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A watchman employed to take care of a ship.
- noun An officer of a man-of-war who seldom goes on shore.
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Examples
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On the third day a third ship-keeper was appointed, and was found dead in the deck-house which had already proved fatal to the other two.
Armadale 2003
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But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper.
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The old ship-keeper, sitting alone smoking on the hatchway in the evening before unloading begins, will affront one with his presence.
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The city bells were just ringing one when the last turn was made fast, and the crew dismissed; and in five minutes more, not a soul was left on board the good ship Alert, but the old ship-keeper, who had come down from the counting-house to take charge of her.
Chapter XXXVI. Soundings-Sights from Home-Boston Harbor-Leaving the Ship 1909
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An active search was then made for the murderers, but as they were strangers to the ship-keeper, no clues to their whereabouts could be discovered.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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Nilsson, Foucault, and Parratt, proceeded to the Danish ship with a supply of whisky, made the ship-keeper royally drunk, and locked him up in an empty berth.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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She had been unloaded, and her crew paid off, with the exception of one elderly man, who remained on board as ship-keeper.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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The ship-keeper, whom I could hardly make out hung over the capstan in a fit of weak pitiful coughing.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890
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It did not move in the least; but as another broken-down buzz like a still fainter echo of the first dismal sound proceeded from it I concluded it must be the head of the ship-keeper.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890
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The ship-keeper dodged about the quarter-deck, out of hearing, and trying to keep out of sight.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890
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