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S(c)hip-brokin, -en, p.p. and ppl. adj. Also: schyp-, shipp-, schipe- and -brokyn, -ine, -ne; -brokkin, -yn, -brockin, -en; -brok. [ME and e.m.E. schip broken (14th c.); S(c)hip n. and Brokin ppl. adj. Cf. Schipbrek n.] Of persons, also (rarely) of goods: That have been shipwrecked; destitute in consequence of being shipwrecked.a. p.p. Also fig. b. ppl. adj. c. absol. as n.a. (1) a1400 Leg. S. ii 924.
[He was] thriis schipe-brokine in the se 1505 Treas. Acc. III 161.
To the Spanȝartis that wer schip brokin, be the kingis command, x Franch crounis 1513 Doug. iv vii 24.
I ressavyt hym schypbrokkyn fra the sey grund 1515 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 33.
The said wardane … to gif pasportis to Inglis men to cum within this realme … for necessar erandis owthir quhen thai war schipbrokin or [etc.] 1531 Bell. Boece I 52.
Two venerabill clerkis, … be unmercifull tempest of sees war schip-brokin 1533 Boece 75b.
Twa men ( … schip brokin and nakit almaist) … come to the king 1535 Stewart 3129.
Tua plesand men … Fund in ane yle schip-brokin with the se 1574 Acts III 87/2.
Schip men and suddarts landing in this realme having licence of the schiref … or toun quhair thay wer schip brokin or first enterit in the realme [etc.] 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 288.
Lord Seytoun come out of Flanderis … to the castell of Edinburgh, as schip brokin c1575 Balfour Pract. 624.
Gif ony subjectis of ony prince confederate happinis to be ship-brokin … upon the coastis of this realme [etc.] 1589–90 Lanark B. Rec. 100. 1596 Prot. Bk. T. Auchinlek 39b.
Schipe brokin 1600–1 Ayr B. Acc. 206.
For the pure Birtownis intertenement quhilkis wer schipbrokin, £12 1602 Conv. Burghs II 139.
Giff ony skipper be schipbrokin than sall he and his cumpany be haldin to saiff and succour the schip and guidis 1638 Henderson Serm. 329.
A man who is shipbroken … makes to, and works with feet and hands als fast as he can(b) 1687 Stirling Ant. IV 18.
Two seamen being shipbrokfig. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1392.
Quhill that ȝe fall in sin and wretchitnes Than schip brokin sall ȝe droun in endles pane Arundel MS 281/89.
Thow maid … grant to me, schip brokin, haueand recours to thé, the port of saluacioun [etc.] 1551 Hamilton Cat. 217.
Pennance … is ordanit to saif al thame that ar schipbrokin eftir baptyme 1562-3 Winȝet II 29/4.
As concerning fayth thai ar schipbrokin(2) 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Wrek.
Wrek of the sea … signifies power … to the king or to ony person to quhome the samin is granted be him be infeftment or ony vther disposition to … vp-take sik guds & geare as [are] schip-broken, or fallis to him be escheit of the seab. (1) c1420 Wynt. iv 1038.
Ane awlde schypbrokyn [C. schip brokyn] marynere 1474 Treas. Acc. I 72.
At the kingis command to iiij pure Franche men … , schipbrokin men iij li. 1508 Ib. IV 120.
Giffin to the Provest of Edinburgh that he gaif be the kingis command to the schipbrokin men of Denmark 1554 Ib. X 232.
To ane schipbrokin Ducheman in almois xxvj s. 1584 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 338.
The schipbrokin Inglismen … quha laitlie maid schip wrak at Orknay 1588 Ib. 531.
Schipbrokkin 1597 (1650) Dundee B. Laws 146.
Payed be ane ordinance of the counsell to shippbroken [pr. shippbroker] Dutchmen [£3 6 s. 8 d.] 1598 Ellon Presb. 21.
Schipbrocken 1610 Reg. Privy C. VIII 839.
With a counterfoote speich [he] callit himselff a schipbrokin man 1627 Elgin Rec. II 198. 1634 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. XVII 305.
To ane schipbroken man being ane Pollonien 1638 Henderson Serm. 372.
Even like a ship-broken man, albeit he be swimming above the water 1680 Craven Ch. in Orkney I 142.
To this other ship brocken man come from Zeatland 1681 Cramond Ch. Grange 38.
The day's collection 24 s. given to John Willson, a ship-broken man supplicating for supply c1650-1700 Descr. Zetland 84.
Some old ruinous chappels, built (as is supposed) by ship-broken merchants in the days of superstition — 1595 Aberd. B. Rec. II 115.
Tua puir Dense men, marineris schipbrockin 1596 Dalr. II 367/11.
The inhabitouris … receiuet liberallie that stranger schip-brokne(2) c1575 Balfour Pract. 624 marg.
Ship-brokin gudis that are not just wrak sould be restorit to the awnerisc. Arundel MS 281/84.
O Mary, … bowsum gidder of schip brokin