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Ship
Ship Ship, n. [AS. scipe.]
Pay; reward. [Obs.]
In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
the wages of servants. --Chaucer.
ShipShip Ship, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
Equip, Skiff, Skipper.]
1. Any large seagoing vessel.
Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
--Milton.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! --Longfellow.
2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
Illustation in Appendix. ShipShip Ship, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shipping.]
1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
transportation; to send by water.
The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
--Knolles.
2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
freight by railroad.
3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
ship seamen.
5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder. Ship
Ship Ship, v. i.
1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
man-of-war.
2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)
shipPacket Pack"et, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the
same source as E. pack. See Pack.]
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
packet of letters. --Shak.
2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
days of sailing; a mail boat.
Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2.
Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
the sailing day.
Packet note or post. See under Paper.
Meaning of ship from wikipedia
- A
ship is a
large watercraft that
travels the world's
oceans and
other sufficiently deep waterways,
carrying cargo or p****engers, or in
support of specialized...
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ship or -
ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
ship is a
large vessel that
floats on water,
specifically the
ocean and the sea.
Ship or
ships may...
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Ship commissioning is the act or
ceremony of
placing a
ship in
active service and may be
regarded as a
particular application of the
general concepts...
- Up the
Ship may
refer to: "Don't give up the
ship", the
dying command of
James Lawrence in 1813
aboard USS
Chesapeake "Don't Give Up the
Ship", words...
- The
Ship of
Theseus is a
thought experiment about whether an
object which has had all of its
original components replaced remains the same object. According...
- A
ship of the line was a type of
naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th
century to the mid-19th century. The
ship of the line...
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Ceremonial ship launching involves the
performance of
ceremonies ****ociated with the
process of
transferring a
vessel to the water. It is a
nautical tradition...
- A
shipwreck is the
wreckage of a
ship that is
located either beached on land or
sunken to the
bottom of a body of water.
Shipwrecking may be intentional...
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Cruise ships are
large p****enger
ships used
mainly for vacationing.
Unlike ocean liners, they
typically embark on round-trip
voyages to
various ports-of-call...
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Ship-breaking (also
known as
ship recycling,
ship demolition,
ship dismantling, or
ship cracking) is a type of
ship disposal involving the
breaking up...
