noun.
A tobacco suited for export; a shipping tobacco. See export tobacco.
noun.
A seaman; a mariner; a skipper.
noun.
One who delivers goods or merchandise to a common carrier, forwarder, express company, etc., for transportation, whether by land or water or both.
noun.
In a machine-shop, a device for shifting a belt from one pulley to another; a belt-shipper or belt-shifter.