Shipmanship

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The role or skills of a shipman. uncountable

    "[…] her rôle was not to encumber the party with easels, but to sit and admire our shipmanship on seas high or low as the case might be."

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seamanshipweather eye

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"[…] her rôle was not to encumber the party with easels, but to sit and admire our shipmanship on seas high or low as the case might be."

Etymology

From shipman + -ship.

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