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▪ I. ship, n.1|ʃɪp|
Forms: 1–5 scip, (1, 4 scipp, 1–3 scyp, 3 sip), 3–4 schup, ssip, 3–7 schip, 4–5 s(c)hyp, shipp, schype, schippe, (4 schypp, shup, scippe, shyppe, schepe, 5 chip(pe, schyppe, shep), 4–6 schipp, 4–7 shippe, 5–6 shyppe, s(c)hipe, shype, shepe, 5–7 shipp, (6 sheppe, Sc. scheip(e), 4– ship.
[Com. Teut.: OE. scip str. neut. = OFris. skip, schip (NFris. skapp, skep, WFris. skip), OS. skip, MLG. schip, schêp (LG. schipp), MDu. sc(h)ip, sc(h)eep, Du. schip (oblique scheepe, comb. scheeps- beside schip-), WFlem. scheep, OHG. scif, skef (MHG. schif, schef, G. schiff), ON. skip (Sw. skepp, Da. skib), Goth. skip; the ultimate etymology is uncertain. The Germanic word appears in Romanic as F. esquif, It. schifo, etc., see skiff n.1]
1. a. A large sea-going vessel (opposed to a boat); spec. (in modern times) a vessel having a bowsprit and three masts, each of which consists of a lower, top, and topgallant mast.
In OE. used also for small craft, as ON. skip.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 188 Scaphum, scip. c888ælfred Boeth. xxxviii. §1 Ða se Aulixes..to þam ᵹefiohte for, þa hæfde he sume hundred scipa. c1050O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 1048, Eadward cining & þa eorlas foran æfter þam ut mid heora scypun. c1200Vices & Virtues 45 Hlesteð hwat ðe hlauerd seið, ðe ðat scip auh, to ðe stieres⁓mannen. a1225Juliana (Royal MS.) 32/12 Þu leddest israeles folc þurh þe reade sea buten schip druifot. c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 32 And so hi were in þo ssipe so a-ros a great tempeste of winde. a1300Cursor M. 13280 Petre and andreu..Wit a word þai left þair scipps tuin [Gött. schippis]. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. x. 160 A schup of schides and Bordes. c1374Chaucer Former Age 21 No ship yit karf the wawes grene and blewe. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (Jacobus Minor) 370 Quhat schepe þat brokine ware a-pone þat coste. c1400Three Kings Cologne (1886) 84 Þat þey had suffrid hem priuelich to passe ouer þe see in her scheppys. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1423 Master of þe shepe, a word with the. 1541Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 149, I give to Mathue Wilson my shipe called Marie Janies. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 355 The skiper of the scheipe. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 182 My Shippes come home a month before the daie. 1671Milton Samson 714 A stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles Of Javan or Gadier. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 84 There's near as much Stuff drops from his [a sea⁓cook's] Carcass every Day as would tallow the Ship's Bottom. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4380/3 One of the Rocks not being a Ships length to Leeward of her. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. vi, The ship was cheer'd, the harbour clear'd. 1873Longfellow Wayside Inn iii. Elizabeth iv, Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing. 1889Welch Naval Archit. viii. 102 The bottom and side plating of all ships is arranged in longitudinal layers or strakes. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 878/2 Ships with four and five masts were employed by several countries during the 19th century.
¶ Ships are now personified as feminine, but usage has varied (see the following quots.).
The use of the masc. pron. in the 17th and 18th cent. was prob. suggested by the application of man to a ship in Dutchman, merchantman, man-of-war. In instances before c 1650 his may mean ‘its’.
1375, etc. [see she 2]. c1426Poem on Agincourt in Hazl. E.P.P. (1866) II. 97 Euery shyp wayed his anker.., They hoysed theyr sayles sayled a lofte. 1588Kyd Househ. Phil. Wks. (1901) 278 In a shyppe the Rudder ought to be no lesse then may suffise to direct hys course. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 93 The Shippe boaring the Moone with her maine Mast. [1622Recov. Exchange in Arb. Eng. Garner IV. 595 ‘A sail!’ ‘a sail!’: which, at last, was discovered to be another Man of War of Turks. For he made towards us. 1627Capt. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 59 A saile, how beares she or stands shee, to wind-ward or lee-ward, set him by the Compasse; he stands right ahead, or on the weather-Bow, or lee-Bow.] 1635Hakewill Apol. (ed. 3) Argt., As a Ship which..cannot move beyond the length of his Cable. 1676Streynsham Master Diaries (1911) II. 93 Wee mett a great Dutch ship neare Nassapore point. He wore a Flagg. 1784New Spect. XIII. 2/1 The last [ship was] drowned and swallowed up, within sight of his own shore.
b. Without article, chiefly in dependence on a prep. Also to take ship (see take v. 24 c).
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. i. (1890) 256 Swa eode he in scip & ferde to Breotone. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1046, Hi..wurpon hine on þone bat..& reowan to scipe. c1205Lay. 1098 Brutus nom Ignogen & into scipe [c 1275 to sipe] lædde. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1464 Þe emperour bigan to fle mid is folc atte laste To scipes. c1350Will. Palerne 5088 Partenedon passed to schepe & his puple after. c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 354 Er þat he myghte brynge his wyf to shipe. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. iv. (1883) 45 Guion fledd also in to affricque by shipp. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 29 He..went to Ship, setting aside all perils. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. (1611) 358 Finding him againe as soone as themselues by shippe were arriued on the contrary side. 1888[see ex 2]. 1912Times 19 Dec. 20/3 Oats..American white, ex ship, 18s. 4½d.
c. In legal enactments often with greatly extended application, as in the following quot.:
1870Act 33 & 34 Vict. c. 90 §30 ‘Ship’ shall include any description of boat, vessel, floating battery, or floating craft; also any description of boat, vessel, or other craft or battery, made to move either on the surface of or under water, or sometimes on the surface of and sometimes under water.
d. In rowing parlance, applied to the racing eight-oar boat; also used playfully of other craft.
1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 14 The bargee is on shipboard—he is master in his own ship—he can land whenever he will. 1888Woodgate Boating 147 She..was once specially borrowed by Corpus (Oxon) during the summer eights, and was said by that crew to be a vast improvement on their own ship. 1896J. Ashby-Sterry Tale of Thames v, Here they leave their ship and quietly stroll up to the New Inn. 1901Daily News 1 Apr. 5/7 The..steadiness of their ship..helped the Oxford men very much.
e. fig. Applied to the state.
1675Machiavelli's Prince ix. Wks. 212 But when times are tempestuous, and the ship of the State has need of the help..of the Subject. 1894Gladstone Odes of Horace iii. viii. 26 Though the State-ship somewhat heave. 191319th Cent. Feb. 305 The Ship of the State of China is still labouring in a storm-swept ocean.
2. With qualifying word or phrase indicating the kind or use:
king's ship (now Hist.), one of the fleet of ships provided and maintained out of the royal revenue; a ship of the royal navy; later, a ship-of-war equipped at the public expense (opp. to privateer); so † ship-royal. † great ship, a ship-of-war.
For flagship, hospital-ship, ice-ship, line-of-battle ship, long ship, merchant ship, post-ship, private ship, slave-ship, steamship, store-ship, troop-ship, warship, etc. see the first elements; for ship of burden, of countenance, of the line, of post, of state, see these ns.; also ship-of-war.[1350in Rymer Fœdera (1825) III. i. 195 Johannes Wille, magister navis regis vocatæ La Plente.] a1400–50Wars Alex. 65 Gales & grete schipis full of grym wapens. 1450Lomner Let. to J. Paston 5 May, Yn the syght of all his men he was drawyn ought of the grete shippe. 1485–7Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 36 The Kings ship cald the Grace dieu. 1495Ibid. 161 The costes of Kepyng the Kynges Ship Ryall called the Soueraigne. 1512in Rymer Fœdera (1712) XIII. 328/2 All Prisoners, beyng Chieftens..and one Shippe Royall being of the Portage of Two Hundred Tonnes or above..Reserved to our said Soveraign Lord. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 688 The Easterlynges..approched the Englishe ship as nere as their great shippes could come at the lowe water. 1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. 31, I never did read..that ever Queen Elizabeth had any Ship-Royal, which..carried the Memorial of any particular Conquest she got. 1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 116 The Church here is a mighty Queen, a ship-royal. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 50 There escaped but one Kings-ship, and one Privateer. Ibid. 357 Captain Swan had his men as much under command as if he had been in a Kings Ship. 1758J. Blake Mar. Syst. 45 The commander of the king's ship is obliged to make up his loss by pressing hands from the merchant ships. 1824Holt Shipping & Navig. Laws (ed. 2) Introd. 36 Foreign seamen, who shall have served in time of war three years on board a king's ship.
b. ship in a bottle, a model ship inside a bottle the neck of which is smaller than the ship.
1949N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. xii. 128 The safes..were full of treasures..a carved nut; a ship in a bottle; [etc.]. 1976Times 2 Feb. 16/4 Construction kits are popular..including a ship-in-a-bottle outfit.
3. a. In fig. and allusive phrases, esp. where ship typifies the fortunes or affairs of a person, etc. or the person himself in regard to them.
to be in the same ship, cf. boat n. 1 d; to give up the ship, to burn one's ships, see burn v. 9 c. when one's ship comes home (or in), when one comes into one's fortune.
1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 165 Thow mak my schip in blissit port to arryif, That sailis heir in stormis violent. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 27 Doubting not to bring his ship to the porte desired. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 209 Those who are conversant in the same danger, are said to be in the same Ship. 1680Debates Parl. (1681) 117 Is not all England in danger to be lost? Let us secure the Ship, before we dispose of the Cabbins. 1816Jefferson Writ. (1899) X. 4 My exhortation would rather be ‘not to give up the ship’. 1820Shelley Œd. Tyr. i. i. 245, I drove her—afar!.. From city to city, abandoned of pity, A ship without needle or star. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 175 One [customer] always says he'll give me a ton of taties when his ship comes home. 1855Thackeray Newcomes lxv, That Mr. Ratray who has just come out of the ship, and brought a hundred thousand pounds with him. 1871Hardy Desperate Remedies II. i. 39 He saw the strokes plainly, instantly resolving to burn his ships and hazard all on an advance. 1880Cable Grandissimes liii, Nobody ever gives up the ship in parlour or veranda debate. 1886D. C. Murray Cynic Fortune xii, The wealthy relative..proposed to supply him with an income of a hundred pounds per annum until the major's next expected ship should come in. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 816 It is well in the case of a new patient at any rate to postpone a final diagnosis till the ship is in calmer waters. 1900Mahan War S. Africa v, Not the courage that throws away the scabbard, much less that which burns its ships.
b. ship of fools [after the title of Sebastian Brant's satirical work Das Narrenschiff (1494), translated into English by Alexander Barclay as The shyp of folys of the worlde (1509)], a ship whose passengers represent various types of vice or folly.
1609Dekker Guls Horne-Booke 3 Any person aforesaid, longing to make a voyage in the Ship of Fools. 1807W. H. Ireland (title) Stultifera navis; qua omnium mortalium narratur stultia. The modern ship of fools. 1864Tennyson Voyage x, in En. Ard. 149 ‘A ship of fools’ he shriek'd in spite. 1919Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 358 He Who launched our Ship of Fools many anchors gave us. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 126/4 The Apocalypse as depicted by Bosch, the upside-down world of Goya, the Ship of Fools having landed its cargo.
c. ships that pass in the night [after the phrase by Longfellow: see quot. 1873], used of people whose acquaintance is necessarily transitory.
1873Longfellow Aftermath in Tales of Wayside Inn iii. iv. 59 Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing... So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again. 1893B. Harraden (title) Ships that pass in the night. 1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xiv. 198 The thought that they had met and parted like ships that pass in the night was very bitter to him. 1978D. Bagley Flyaway xxv. 235 ‘Inquisitive, isn't he?’ ‘Not abnormally so. Chit-chat between ships that pass in the night.’
d. a tight ship, a ship in which ropes, etc., are tight; hence a strictly run ship; usu. transf. and fig.
1971‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers i. 6 Dai liked a tight mainsheet... ‘Pull in tighter, boy... I want a tight ship.’ 1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 June 42/1 The two student judges..ran a tight ship. Firm commands—‘There will be no knitting in my courtroom.’ 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 13 May 593/3 Dr Kelly runs a tighter ship altogether than Dr Sheeran: her bibliography is a model of both inclusion and exclusion.
4. transf. Applied to various objects that are, or are conceived to be, navigated.
† a. Noah's ark. b. a balloon, aircraft, or powered spacecraft. c. ship of the desert, desert-ship: the camel. d. ship of Guinea = Guinea ship (b) s.v. Guinea 1.
[a1300Cursor M. 9674 Noe..in þat scip allan was in.] 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. xxxvii. 193 In Noe's ship he and his wif, har thre sonys and har wiffis sawid were. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1351 In þe shep of noee. 1526R. Whitford Martiloge 12 b, Saynt Noe that made the shyppe. 1579T. Stevens in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. ii. 99 A thing swimming vpon the water like a cocks combe (which they call a ship of Guinea). [1615G. Sandys Trav. 138 Camels. These are the ships of Arabia, their seas are the deserts.] 1679R. Hooke Philos. Collections No. i. 18 A demonstration, how it is practicably possible to make a ship which shall be sustained by the air, and may be moved either by sails or oars. 1709Evening Post 20–22 Dec. 2 The description of a flying ship, lately invented. 1784, etc. [see aerial ship s.v. aerial a. 5]. 1823[see desert n.2 1]. 1824[see desert n.2 5]. 1860Brit. Patent 1598 1 An improved navigable balloon or aerostatic ship. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage xxi. 439 Those ships of the desert, the long line of his camels. 1908H. G. Wells War in Air v. 151 The ships of the German air-fleet rising one by one. 1930Sci. Wonder Q. Spring 352 Both men ran toward the ship..for if the rocket were destroyed, they would be lost in the icy wastes of Venus. 1980J. Cartwright Horse of Darius xvi. 251 ‘O.K. Let's get in the ship.’.. As soon as they were airborne, Teymour told him what had happened.
5. a. A vessel, utensil, ornament, etc. shaped like a ship. Also (in first quot.), the noble coined under Edward III, which bore the image of a ship.
c1410Hoccleve Min. Poems xvii. 29, vj⊇ shippes grete, To yeue vs han yee grauntid & behight. 1490Caxton Eneydos v. 22 Cymphes..ben in maner of lityl bokettis, or lytyl shippes, of a strange stone. 1525in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 271 A ship of silver for the almes disshe. 1575–6New Yrs. Gifts in Nichols Progr. Eliz. (1823) II. 1 A juell of golde, being a shippe, set with a table dyamonde of fyve sparcks of dyamondes.
b. An incense boat. Now Hist.
1422Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1904) 14 Also iij sensers of siluer & gilt Also ij sheppis of seluere. 1472in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 5 A ship of silver in passel gilt without spone. 1546S. Fish Supplic. Poore Commons 75 Torches, tapurs, shepe, sensoures. 1593Rites of Durham (Surtees) 8 Two Shipps of silver, parcell gilt, for principall dayes. 1843Pugin Apol. Rev. Chr. Arch. 51 b, Two thuribles, with a ship for incense. 1898J. W. Legg in Yorksh. Archæol. Jrnl. XV. 132 note, A censer with coals, a ship with incense, and a spoon.
†c. The nave (see nave n.2) of a church. rare.
1613tr. Mexio's Treas. Anc. & Mod. T. 713/1 One of his Prophets made a conuocation..of all the people, in the great Shippe of the great Church.
d. Salt-making. The vessel into which the brine runs from the pits. Now Hist.
1669Phil. Trans. IV. 1065 They fill their Panns again with new Brine out of the Ship, (so they call a great Cistern by their Panns sides, into which their Brine runs through the Woodden Gutters from the Pump, that stands in the Pitt). 1674Ray Coll. Words 175. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. 1981Times 14 July 3/2 Two hollow log ‘ships’ for boiling brine were found, dating to the sixteenth century.
e. Astron. The Argo Navis, a southern constellation extending between Canis major and Centaurus from the equator nearly to the pole.
1599T. Hill Sch. Skil 23 The image named the Ship, hath 45. stars. 1822Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 508/1 [The milky way] traverses the constellations Cassiopeia,..Canis Major, and the Ship. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 334.
†6. A shipful, shipload. Obs.
1455–6Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 290 A shype of iryn that come yn befor Michalmas. c1595Carew Excell. Eng. Tongue in G. G. Smith Eliz. Crit. Ess. (1904) II. 292 When wee would be rid of one, wee vse to saye..by circumlocution..another in your steede, a shipp of salte for you.
7. a. A ship's company or crew.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 170 Do dight & mak ȝow bone, þe schip ere Sarazins alle. 1648Hamilton Papers (Camden) 222 The twelue schipps that haue declared for the King doeth much startill ther former inclinations. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 157 It was not the most eligible place for a ship to refresh at.
b. old ship, a jocular address to a sailor.
1849Cupples Green Hand i, ‘Come, old ship, give us a Yarn!’ said the younger forecastle-men to an old one. Ibid vi, ‘What's the odds, Harry, old ship?’ said Tom.
8. attrib. and Comb.
a. Simple attrib. = of or for, pertaining to, or concerning a ship or ships, used or fitted for use on board ship, as ship-accounts, ship-beak, ship-bell, ship-canal, ship-captain, ship-channel, ship-crane, † ship-dock, † ship-gun, ship life, ship-pump, etc. (Cf. the compounds with ship's, 9 c.)
1815Scott Guy M. xliii, *Ship-accounts and other papers.
1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1614) 9 Those *ship-beakes called in Latine Rostra.
1871Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Musician's T. iv. iv, When the dismal *ship-bell tolled.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 35 The *ship bow or loofe.
1798I. Allen Hist. Vermont 268 A *ship canal would be the means of importing salt, and exporting the preceding articles cheap. 1847Niles' Reg. 13 Nov. 165/2 A ship canal wide and deep enough to float a first-rate man-of-war. 1959Chambers's Encycl. III. 38/1 The great ship canals of modern times have been built to carry large ocean-going vessels; but the earlier ship canals..can take only small ships and barges.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-captain, the master and commander of a merchant-vessel. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia II. 195 We fell in with a ship-captain.
1887J. Ball Natur. S. Amer. 356 The passengers..were resting in their *ship-chairs.
1775J. Quincy Let. 31 Oct. in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revolution (1853) I. 73 The *ship-channel..runs between the east head of Long Island and the south point of Deer Island. 1847Niles' Reg. 2 Oct. 70/2 To construct a ship channel, so to speak, to the St. Lawrence.
1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 15, I suspected..that the Animadverter had been some *Ship-Chaplain.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 68 The Planters..were certain of a Hurricane, and warned the *Ship-Commanders to provide for it.
1932Auden Orators i. 16 Like those *ship-cranes along Clydebank.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 398/1 Nauale, a *shipdocke, which is a place where ships are builded and repaired. 1659Kilburne Kent 73 [Deptford] famous for the Shipdock, Storehouse and Corporation there for the Navy.
1552Huloet, *Shyp drudge,..Misonauta.
c1000Gl. Prud. in Germania (N.S.) XI. 389/42 Bellum classicum, *scypᵹefæoht. 1647Hexham 1, A ship-fight, een schip-vecht.
1408tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 226/1 *Schipfiȝttynge asketh to haue a loft see & nouȝt rowe see.
1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xvii. (1840) 289 The *ship firing is not at him.
1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5374/2 They placed two *Ship-Guns on the Bridge. 1799Hull Advertiser 7 Sept. 4/3 The thirty two pounder ship-gun.
1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 14 Bracketts. Are certaine little peeces..which belong to the supporting of galleries, or *ship-heads.
1904Sladen Playing the Game ii. ii, A pair of handcuffs and a pair of *ship-irons.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship-language, the shibboleth of nautic diction, as tau'sle, fok'sle, for topsail, forecastle.
1849Cupples Green Hand ix, It's nouther *ship-law nor shore-law..as houlds good on a bloody dazart!
1873Routledge's Young Gentl. Mag. 162 Familiar with *ship life.
1485in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 291 The *shippe lofe which is made of clane whete as it cometh from the shefe.
a1700Evelyn Diary 1 Nov. 1660, A curious *ship modell.
1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. (1663) 42 A Harquebuss, a Crock, or *Ship-musquet.
1526Grete Herball cccxliii. (1529) T iij, Pytche is of dyuers sortes for there is *shyppe pytche and pytche liquide or thynne, or tarre. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health B 5 Let Shyp Pytche Be dyssolued one whole nyghte in stronge Vyneger.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 17 As it were *ship-planks caught vp from a shipwracke. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 206 Ship-Plank of two or three Inches thick. 1857Perley Hand-bk. N. Brunswick 11 For ship-planks and ship-timber.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. x. 94 The very Mariners..tooke heart to snatch vp the *Ship-poles, and to make resistance.
1661Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. Introd. a 6 He may not sail with other *Ship-provisions then what is good and wholesome. 1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 47/2 A..breed of cattle..fed in Basse-Bretagne chiefly for ship-provisions.
1742W. Ellis Timber-Tree Improved II. xxxvii. 181 The Timber is..of especial Use..for *Ship-pumps. 1834–6Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 285/2 A good ship pump.
1720Pope Iliad xxiii. Notes end, The Naval-Course, or *Ship-Race.
1661Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. 48 Invoyces, Bills of Lading, *Ship-Roll, with other Instruments and ship-papers.
1698Act 10 Will. III, c. 14 §1 For building..or repairing of Stages *Shiprooms Trainfats. 1780Jefferson Writ. (1853) I. 275 Great numbers of negroes..were left, either for the want of ship-room or through choice. 1841Dana Seaman's Man. iii. iii. 212 The contract of passengers with the master is not for mere ship-room..on board.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 167/10 Rudentes, *sciprapas. 1675Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 258 [He] shut the utter-gate, And with a ship-rope that lay by it ties. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 48 Other Ship ropes not vsed..about the masts.
1585Jas. VI Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 39 Since that only wind my *shipsailles blew. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 263 The weaving of..Ship-sailes.
1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 74 *Ship spayres..iiij.
c1300K. Horn 1412 (Laud MS.) He comen out of *scyp sterne. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 27 The Boat rope, is that by which the boat is towed or tyed to the ship stern.
1661Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. 47 Embezilments of *ship-tackle or furniture.
1647Hexham i, *Ship-tackling, scheeps-koorden. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 32 Two necessary Instruments used much about the ship tacklings.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer lvi, It was pronounced, for *ship-tailoring, excellent.
1717Petiveriana iii. 202 Ring-Oak or White-iron..is esteemed the best for *Ship-use.
1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 370 An Oake, a Poplar, or a Pine, Hewne downe for *shipwood.
b. With reference to the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon custom of burying a ship in a grave-mound.
1847in Madden Shrines & Sepulchres (1851) I. 334 Boats, and even large ships, being drawn on shore and turned keel uppermost, the bodies of the slain deposited under them, and stones and earth superimposed, thus forming what may appropriately be termed ship barrows. 1866G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 196 Mighty Mounds, olden Stone-rings, Ship-settings,..Grave-cumbels. 1889P. B. Du Chaillu Viking Age I. 335 note, Other ship-graves, such as that of Tune, Borre, &c., have been found with skeletons of horses. 1899H. M. Chadwick Cult of Othin 43 The ship-funeral..seems to be a distinctively Scandinavian custom. 1907― Origin Eng. Nation xi. 288 The launching of the funeral ship really was an ancient custom..from which both ship-cremation (on land) and ship-burial were derived. 1940Burlington Mag. Dec. 174/1 The great Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo..was excavated in the summer of 1939. 1963C. Green Sutton Hoo ii. 33 (heading) The ship-barrow excavation.
c. objective and objective genitive, as ship-bearing, ship-jumper, ship-jumping, ship-launch, ship-maker, etc.
1596Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxvii. 312 Washt with the once *ship-bearing Ley.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 255 Brokers and *Ship-clearers, who would have Goods insured. 1663Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. Index E j b, A *ship-destroying Engine.
1907F. T. Bullen Advance Austral. xix, It was a fine piece of *ship-handling.
1964Punch 4 Mar. 336/3 Except for a few *ship-jumpers, most come by air.
1959P. McCutchan Storm South xv. 213 Genuine cases of *ship-jumping by men who had had enough of sail.
1832C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada iv. (1836) 52 At Brockville we arrived..in time to enjoy..a *ship-launch.
1552Huloet, *Ship letter to hyre, nauicularius.
1483Cath. Angl. 337/1 A *Schyppe maker, barcarius.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-modeller,..one who lays down the proposed lines of a vessel.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 101 Simon de Vlieger, an admired *ship-painter.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 253 James Brown, *ship-rigger.
1892Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker 8 Smuggling, *ship⁓scuttling, barratry, piracy.
1655Davenport K. John & Matilda v. i, From mine eyes, *ship-sincking Cataracts, Whold [sic] clouds of waters,..Shall fall into the Sea of my affliction.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-surveyor, an examiner of the condition, fittings, and sea-worthiness of ships.
1806Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tristia Wks. 1812 V. 299 Ship-brokers, or Ship-breakers, or *Ship-swabbers.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent 86 A most dreadfull gulfe, and *shippe swalower.
d. adverbial, esp. instrumental, as ship-based, ship-beset, ship-borne, ship-dotted, ship-forsaken, ship-laden adjs.; similative, as ship-fashion adv., ship-like adj.
1973J. D. R. Rawlings Pictorial Hist. Fleet Air Arm vi. 69 The Navy..could see a use for the helicopter as a *ship-based submarine spotter.
1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 95 A yellow strand and *ship-beset green sea. 193219th Cent. Feb. 206 The second [method] is the limitation by agreement of numbers of *ship-borne aircraft. 1978Navy News May 5/2 The Phoebe..came out of her two-and-a-half year refit with..shipborne torpedoes fitted.
a1835Motherwell Poet. Wks. (1847) 5 The *ship-borne warriors of the North.
1889J. J. Hissey Tour Phaeton 216 The far-reaching, *ship-dotted sea beyond.
1771Encycl. Brit. III. 585/1 Pinks sail with three masts, *ship-fashion. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxii, The chief table was adorned by a salt ship-fashion, made of mother-of-pearl.
1735Thomson Liberty i. 282 The *Ship-forsaken Bay.
1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 6 The yellow, rushing, *ship-laden river.
1842Faber Styrian Lake 239 The *shiplike clouds, which overwhelm The azure sky. 1855Lynch Rivulet xxiv. ii, With a steady will unswerving, Ship-like may we onward press. 1864tr. Vambéry's Trav. Central Asia 198 The camels, the shiplike movements of which I had formerly so much dreaded.
9. a. Special comb.: † ship-agent, a shipping agent; † ship-bearer, one who carries an incense-boat; † ship-beer [cf. MDu. schipbier, G. schiffsbier], beer made for consumption on board ship; ship('s) biscuit, hard biscuit prepared for use on board ship, hard-tack; formerly called ship('s) bread; † ship-bridge, a pontoon bridge; ship-broker, a mercantile agent who transacts the business of a ship when it is in port, or is engaged in buying and selling ships, or in procuring insurance on them; ship-brokerage, the business performed by a ship-broker; ship-broking vbl. n. = ship-brokerage; † ship-burden, a ship-load; ship-carver, -caulker (see quots.); † ship-chest, -coffer, a chest used on board ship; ship('s) company, the crew of a ship; ship-contractor, -deliverer (see quots.); ship('s) decanter, a decanter with a base of greater width than the shoulder; † ship-fare, (a) travelling by ship; (b) = ship-hire; † ship-ferd, a navy; ship-fever, a form of typhus fever, called also gaol fever and hospital fever; ship float, (a) a lighter; (b) the splashers of a paddle-wheel (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); † ship-fountain (see quot.); † ship-fraught, -freight (see fraught n. 1, freight n. 1) = ship-hire; † ship-governor = shipmaster; † ship-gume = shipman; ship-hearth (see quot.); † ship-hire [cf. MDu. schiphure], the passage money for a sea-voyage; ship-holder = ship-owner (Webster 1828–32); † ship-hook, ? a grappling iron; ship-joiner (see quot. 1858); ship-keeper, a man who takes care of a ship when the crew is absent from it; ship-ladder, a ladder used in boarding or leaving a ship; also, a kind of embroidery stitch; ship-lap, (a) a form of joint in carpentry made by halving (see quots. and halving vbl. n.1 2 and cf. half-lap and lap-point s.v. lap n.3 2 b and 6); (b) boards interlocked by rebates, used esp. for cladding; so ship-lapped ppl. a., ship-lapping (also attrib.), and hence ship-lap v., to furnish with joints of this kind; ship-letter, a letter carried by a private vessel and not by the ordinary mail boat; † ship-lord = ship-owner; ship-mark, a postmark on a letter carried by a mail ship; ship-mate, one who serves with another in the same ship; also in phr. to be ship-mates with, to sail in the same vessel with; hence transf., to be acquainted with, to have knowledge of (colloq.); hence shipmatish a.; † ship news, (a) news conveyed by ship; (b) shipping news; ship-papers, now usually ship's papers, the documents (passport, muster-roll, charter-party, log-book, etc.) with which a ship is required by law to be provided; ship-pendulum, a pendulum with a graduated arc, used in the navy to ascertain the ‘heel’ of a vessel (Knight Dict. Mech.); ship plane, an aeroplane specially adapted for operating from an aircraft carrier; ship-plate, an inferior grade of wrought iron plate; † ship-privateer, a privateer commanded by a captain (cf. ship-sloop); † ship-rae Sc. [see ra1 and cf. MDu. schipra], a sailyard; ship-railway, (a) an inclined railway running into the water over which a ship may be drawn out on land for repairs, etc.; (b) a railway for transporting ships overland; † ship-rede Sc. [see reid1], a roadstead; † ship ren, a ship's course; ship-rigged a., carrying square sails on all three masts; † ship-road, (a) a sea-voyage; (b) a roadstead; † ship-scot = ship-money; ship-scraper, (a) see quot. 1875; (b) one whose occupation it is to scrape the keels and decks of ships; an instrument used for this purpose; shipside, (a) spec., the outside of the hull of a ship; (b) the dock adjacent to a moored ship; † ship sloop, a sloop of war commanded by a captain, and therefore having the rating of a ship; ship('s) smith (see quot. 1858); ship-spy, a telescope used on the coast (Halliwell 1847); ship('s) stores, (a) provisions and supplies for use on board ship; (b) sing. (U.S.) a shop on board ship; ship-stuff, (a) inferior wheat flour; (b) material for the woodwork of a ship; ship('s) time, (a) the local mean time of the meridian where the ship is; (b) Canad. local, (the time of) the arrival of an annual supply ship; † ship-tire, a head-dress shaped like a ship or having a ship-like ornament; ship-to-air, used attrib. to designate a missile fired from a ship at an aerial target; † ship('s) toll, passage money, fare for a voyage; ship-to-ship, used attrib. to designate communications, missiles, etc., directed from one ship to another; ship-to-shore, used attrib. to designate communications, missiles, etc., directed from a ship to land; also ellipt. as n., a radio-telephone operating in this manner; † ship-war, naval warfare; shipway, (a) a way or bed on which ships are built or laid for examination; (b) a ship-canal; ship-work, work at a ship or on board ship; ship-building, naval construction; ship-worker, one who employs labourers to unload ships; † ship-writ, a writ for ship-money.
1813Examiner 8 Feb. 86/1 O. R. Read and Co...*ship-agents.
c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 337 In festys clepyd Maius duplex ther schal be two sensours at euensonge and matyns, and a *schypberer.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 85 If ever he [a sea-cook] prays, it's in a Morning fasting, and that is to some Tag-rag, to fetch him a little *Ship-Beer.
1799Hull Advertiser 6 Apr. 1/1 The business of a *ship-biscuit baker. 1823Adam Clarke in Life (1840) xi. 407 Always carry with you some hard or ship biscuit. 1855E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) xxxi. 603 The residents are then compelled to have recourse..to ship's biscuit. 1893W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 27 Twelve ordinary-sized ship's biscuits.
1598Florio, Pane biscotto, bisket bread, *ship-bread. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 310 No ship's bread was expended. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. II. xvi. 169 The ship-bread was powdered by beating it with a capstan-bar.
1663Brief Acc. Turks Late Exped. 11 The River had torn their *Ship-bridges.
1816Sporting Mag. XLVII. 254 Mr. Wild, a *ship broker in the City. 1834McCulloch Dict. Comm. (ed. 2) 188 A ship broker is not within the various acts for the regulation and admission of brokers.
1886Daily Tel. 11 Sept. (Cass.), The question of *ship-brokerage in France had formed the subject of frequent representations to the French government.
1955Times 29 June 14/5 Our *shipbroking department had an active 12 months and profited during the latter part of the year from the substantial rise in tramp freights. 1969Daily Tel. 24 Jan. 5/3 Wigham-Richardson is largely concerned with marine insurance, shipbroking and chartering.
1646J. Hall Upon King's Gt. Porter 22 Wee'l weigh thee by *Ship⁓burdens not by th' stone.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-carver, one who carves figure-heads, and the work on the stern.
Ibid., *Ship-caulker, one whose business it is to stop, with oakum and pitch, the seams of ships' sides and decks.
1494in Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 322, I bequeith to my cousyn William Hill my best bras pott a *ship chest and ij mesers of Ode. 1529Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 178 A schip kist 20d. 1534in Archæol. Cant. VII. 285, j olde shyppe cheste without locke.
1557Will in Cullum Hist. Hawsted (1784) 126 One great *shipp cofer.
1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 2 When Ships meet,..they use to demand how they doe all fore and aft, the reason whereof is, for that the whole *Ships company is devided. 1661in Godolphin's View Admir. Jurisd. App. 174 In the sight and presence of the Ship-Company. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 56 To purchase Wine Abroad for the Service of the Ship's Company. 1891Ship's company [see ship's writer, sense 9 c]. 1978Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 13/5 Shore-based organisations..will be involved..as well as 25 to 35 members of the ship's company.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship-contractor, the charterer or freighter of a vessel.
1929W. A. Thorpe Hist. Eng. & Irish Glass II. Plate cxxix. (caption), *Ship's decanter, four angular rings round the neck. 1976J. Carroll Madonna Red (1977) iii. 93 The ambassador was holding a crystal ship's decanter. 1979P. Alexander Show me Hero vii. 90 A ship decanter and two wine glasses.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-deliverer, a person who contracts to unload a ship.
c1320Sir Tristr. 926 Bliþe was his bosking, And fair was his *schip fare. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 686 Till our-saile thaim in-to schipfair. Ibid. 692 Ankyrs, rapys..And all that nedyt to schipfar. 1648Hexham ii, Schip-laon,..ship-hire, Ship-fraught, or Ship-fare. 1661in Godolphin's View Admir. Jurisd. App. 176 The Master..ought to shew them [the company] their Ship-fare, which he may weigh out to each of them.
a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 999, Þæt man sceolde mid *scipfyrde & eac mid landfyrde him onᵹean faran. c1205Lay. 2156 Humber king & al his fleote & his muchele scip ferde.
1758J. Blake Mar. Syst. 49 One man labouring under what is called the *Ship Fever, or the Goal Distemper. 1868Chamb. Encycl. X. 721/1 Fleeing in despair, emigrants carried the germs of disease with them; and the so-called ship-fever which followed destroyed its thousands.
1626Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 355/2 Instrumentum quo aqua salsa dulcis effecta est, quod πηγοναυτικον vulgo *schip-fontane appellatum est.
c1375*Schip fraucht [see fraught n. 1]. 1648[see ship-fare above].
1552*Ship freight [see ship-hire below].
1526Tindale Rev. xviii. 17 Every *shippe governer, and all they that occupied shippes.
c1205Lay. 4560 Godlac sloh þa *scip-gumen [c 1275 sipmen].
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-hearth Maker, a manufacturer of the cooking galleys or stoves used on shipboard.
13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 265 For his *schip huyre his wyf he heolde. c1440Promp. Parv. 446/2 Schyphyre, naulum. 1552Huloet, Ship hire or freight, naulum. 1648[see ship-fare above].
1633Sir J. Burroughs Sov. Brit. Seas (1651) 114 With certaine *ship⁓hookes and other like Instruments [etc.].
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-joiner,.. a mechanic who does the neat or fine woodwork in ships and buildings, and is therefore distinguished from the shipwright and carpenter. 1897Daily News 29 Mar. 7/3 The strike of the ship joiners of the River Thames.
c1517in Archæologia XLVII. 310 Wages of *Shippekepers in the Thames. 1618in J. Charnock Hist. Mar. Arch. (1801) II. 237 The rigging at the setting forth may bee performed by the ordinary shipp⁓keepers. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxvi, Not a soul was left on board the good ship Alert but the old ship⁓keeper.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 182/10 Ponsis, *sciphlædder. 1611Cotgr., Transpontin, a ship-ladder. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685). 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 187 To work Jacob or Ship Ladder.
1854A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants., *Ship-lap, a carpenter's term for a mode of uniting the end of one piece of wood to the side of another, at right angles, by a bevil-shaped bearing on the upper edge. 1939W. Faulkner Wild Palms 15 The flimsy walls (they were not even tongue-and-groove..but were of ship-lap). 1977Cornish Times 19 Aug. 13/2 (Advt.), Our..plumbing, shiplap claddings and drainage systems are always in stock.
1887Home Missionary (N.Y.) Mar. 432 It [our home] is ‘*ship-lapped’ and partially plastered. 1958Archit. Rev. CXXIII. 327 (caption) Northern elevation with ship-lapped pine used as facing for the first floor.
1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 278/1 The simplest joint is that known as *ship-lapping, in which each end is cut down through half its thickness, and the cut met by a cross-cut, and the piece removed. 1882Christy Joints made by Builders 103 Ship Lapping Joint.
c1675in J. W. Hyde Post in Grant (1894) 326 *Ship letter. 1817Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 963 A letter..with the English ship-letter post-mark. 1829Parl. Papers XI. 288 Ship-letter office. 1834Ibid. XLIX. 501 Above 1200 ship-letter mails are forwarded via Liverpool in the course of a year. 1849Cupples Green Hand xxxii, My mother handed Jane a ship-letter.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 181/21 Nauclerus, *sciphlaford. c1440Promp. Parv. 447/1 Schyplord,..navarchus.
1801S. & Ht. Lee Cant. T. IV. 456 The letter had no *ship-mark: I examined that of the post; it was from Hull.
1748Anson's Voy. iii. iii. 329 Our Commander and *Shipmates. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xiii, A handsome, hearty fellow, and a good shipmate. 1876W. Lamont Yachting in Arctic Seas 13 These six Tromsönians were, in seagoing phrase, the hardest bargains I was ever shipmates with. 1880W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. ii. 60, I had never been shipmates with an island of this kind before. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. ii, ‘You know an old shipmate, Bill, surely’, said the stranger. 1961G. Foulser Seaman's Voice i. 13, I was never shipmates with a boom mainsail.
1893W. C. Russell Emigr. Ship II. 84, ‘I respect your *shipmatish views’, said I.
1712Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 723 This being only *ship news, little credit is given theretoo. 1761Lond. Chron. July 2–4, 14/2 Ship News. Falmouth, June 29. Wind N. arrived the King George packet-boat, Bown, from Lisbon.
1661Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. Introd. a 6 He may not carry counterfeit Cocquets or other Fictitious and Colourable *Ship-papers to involve the Goods of the Innocent with the Nocent. 1753Scots Mag. Mar. 126/2 The ship-papers and depositions. 1853Maude & Pollock Law Merch. Shipping iii. 63 The master is the proper person to have the custody of the ship's papers.
1919in C. G. Grey All World's Aircraft i. 96a The Beardmore W.B. III. was evolved from the Sopwith ‘Pup’ in an effort to turn this machine into a *ship-plane. 1922Flight XIV. 126/2 Landplanes designed so as to facilitate their landing on a ship's deck will ordinarily be known as Ship Planes. 1942Ark Royal Aug. 13/2 A ship-plane represents certain constructional problems which entail a sacrifice of speed.
1873R. Wilson Steam Boilers 32 The badly refined, coarse, brittle and uncertain material sometimes sold as *ship plate. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 93 Ship Plate Maker.
1799Naval Chron. I. 529 A *ship privateer named La Zele, mounting 16 guns and 69 men. 1805Nelson 23 July in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 486 A Ship-Privateer of twenty-two Guns.
1595Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Antenna, a *ship-rae.
1881Chicago Times 12 Mar. The Times does not undertake to say that the *ship-railway scheme is impracticable. 189119th Cent. Mar. 386 No ship railway is at present in operation.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 127 Quha is ouir Haevinis and *schipredes thay cal Admiral.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 341 So þat toward þe west þe *ssiprene [v.r. schipreone] drou.
1844Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 189/2 The vessel was *ship-rigged.
a1400New Test. (Paues) Acts xxvii. 10, I see þat wiþ iniurye ande myche harme..bigynnes oure *schiprode to be. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 422 To assume unto it the name of a ship-Rode, or Haven.
1640[H. Parker] Case of Shipmony 2 To introduce the legality of the *Ship-scot, such a prerogative hath been maintained, as destroyes all other Law. 1643Oath of Pacification 8 The Kingdome groaned..under the oppression of the Shipscot.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Ship Scraper, a triangular or square piece of steel, handled, and with sharpened edges for scraping the keels and decks of vessels. 1890Daily News 12 June 6/1 The United Shipscrapers' Protection League.
1439in Archæologia (1827) XXI. 37 Men of arms, feyghtyng upon the *shippe syde. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 112, I would you had beene by the ship side, to haue help'd her. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 11 Near the Ship Side. 1887Morris Odyss. x. 172, I cast him adown by the ship-side. 1937Sun (Baltimore) 26 Mar. 26/3 He parked his car in a garage, left orders with an automobile company to have a new machine at shipside [etc.]. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 83/3 General cargo facilities..have two shipside tracks. 1972C. Mudie Motor Boats & Boating 93 Most sports fishermen therefore incorporate a section of the cockpit coamings, shipside, or transom which can be removed to help loading.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship-sloop, commanders were appointed to 24-gun sloops, but when the same sloops were commanded by captains, they were rated ships.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship's-smith, an iron worker who fits the metal work, bolts, &c. in ships. 1897Daily News 19 Feb. 2/2 All the shipsmiths on the north-east coast.
1785Daily Universal Register 1 Jan. 4/3 Sundry *ships stores, consisting of sails, cables, anchors. 179828th Rep. Sel. Comm. Finance (1803) XIII. 356 Draught Carts for conveying old Ship's Stores. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvii, Disposing of a great quantity of ship stores, claret, preserved meats, and great casks packed with soda-water. 1943U.S. Navy Bluejacket's Man. (ed. 11) 1143 The ship's store, perhaps better known as the ‘Canteen’, is also under the jurisdiction of the supply officer. 1969A. R. Bosworth My Love Affair with Navy ii. 44 He had been to the ship's store, and he came into the ward with several candy bars.
1793Washington Lett. Writ. 1891 XII. 382 The middlings and *ship stuff may be sold to answer the money calls which you will have upon you. 1884Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 511 Saw oak for shipstuff.
1771A. Graham Observations on Hudson's Bay (1969) ix. 282 How affairs went on last *shiptime I know not. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. v. 47 Young Mr. Blucher..was a good deal worried by the constantly changing ‘ship time’. 1891Patterson Naut. Dict. 303 Ship Time, the solar time at the place of the ship—12 o'clock (noon) being made known by eight bells when the sun crosses the meridian. 1956Beaver Winter 52/1 Time to plan the spring work—but why do that; shiptime is far away and now is really the time for that rest.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 60 The right arched-beauty of the brow, that becomes the *Ship-tyre..or any Tire of Venetian admittance.
1957Times Survey Brit. Aviation Sept. 2/4 A *ship-to-air weapon. 1972Times 29 Sept. 4/8 The through-deck carriers will carry..the ship-to-air missile, Sea Dart.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 182/13 Naulum, *sciptol. c1475Pict. Voc. ibid. 805/4 Hoc naulum, a schyppes tolle. 1648Hexham ii, Schip-tol, Ship-toll, or Custome.
1904H. W. Wilson in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VIII. xv. 482 The battle of Camperdown..was not, as had been planned, a mere *ship-to-ship encounter. 1944Proc. IRE XXXII. 326/2 Ship-to-ship telephone communication. 1977Navy News Aug. 19 (caption) H.M.S. Fife, one of four guided missile destroyers in Portsmouth Navy Days, with her new Exocet ship-to-ship missiles mounted just below her bridge.
1923Monthly Weather Rev. LI. 5/1 The cost of radio *ship-to-shore tolls. 1962K. C. Hutchin How not to kill your Husband xlvii. 221 The worst invention of recent years connected with sailing is ‘ship-to-shore’ radio⁓telephone. 1971N. Freeling Over High Side iii. 197 We've got the ship-to-shore. Couldn't we phone someone? 1977B. Garfield Recoil xiv. 148 ‘Why the hell don't you ever turn on your ship-to-shore?’..‘I go on this boat to get away from telephones.’ 1979Daily Tel. 22 Sept. 36/3 Makers of ship-to-shore oil pipes.
1408tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 223/2 Þe lawes or hestes of *schep werre. c1440Promp. Parv. 447/1 Schyppe werre, naumachia.
1834Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 343 note, Constructing buildings for the accommodation of officers of the yards, in storehouses,..and *shipways. 1840Hull Docks Comm. 189 Shipways, a platform of stone-work in the bed of the river, for the purpose of laying the ships on to examine their bottoms. 1884Manch. Exam. 15 Aug. 4/8 The construction of a ship-way from Manchester to the sea.
1408–9tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 224/1 To hewe tymbre as grete bemes for *schip werk. 1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 283 He gaif to Schir Alexander Makison, to furnis the schip werk, xx li. 1616in Compt bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) 280, 12 peaceis oak for ship wark. 1904Daily Chron. 9 June 3/4 He might be able to write a good text⁓book on ship-work.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 36 Dock Service:..*Shipworker. 1891Daily News 9 Feb. 3/2 The shipworkers and quay foremen.
1640Act 16 Chas. I, c. 14 §1 Diverse Writs..commonly called *Shipwrits for the charging of the Ports Townes..of this Realme respectively to provide and furnish certain Ships for his Majesties Service. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 140 The Ship⁓writs having been issued out August the 11. 1635. a1754Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 253 The council who had..just before the relation issued ship-writs to the inland.
b. In the names of animals: ship-borer = ship-worm; † ship-halter, the sucking-fish = remora 1; so ship-holder; † ship-nut (see quot.); ship-rat, a variety of rat found on board ship; ship-stayer, a fish of the family Echeneididæ; ship-worm, any of the worm-shaped mollusks of the genus Teredo and allied genera, esp. T. navalis.
1668Charleton Onomast. 125 Remora..the Remora, or *Ship-halter.
1860Wraxall Life in Sea v. 111 Many fabulous stories have been told of the small ‘*Ship-holder’, a sucking-fish often met with in the Mediterranean.
1729W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 420 *Ship-Nuts. Are hard Shells, which commonly adhere to Ships like the Barnacles.
1860Wynter Cur. Civilis. 132 The *ship-rat must not be confounded with the water-rat, which is an entirely different species. 1890Stevenson in G. Balfour Life (1911) 222 The ship-rats which infest the shores and invade the houses.
1778Da Costa Brit. Conchol. 21 S[erpula] Teredo. The *Ship Worm. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies VI. 149 The ship-worm is more apt to injure the vessel in this place than in other parts. 1879E. P. Wright Anim. Life 562 Teredidæ, or Ship-worms.
c. Combinations with ship's (many of which have alternative forms in 8 a; see also 9 a), as ship's anchor, ship's apparel, † ship's castle, ship's cook, ship's doctor, ship's log, ship's pump, ship's timepiece, ship's writer, ship's yeoman; ship's articles, the terms according to which seamen take service on board ship; ship's cousin, app. humorously modelled on ship's husband; ship's days, the days allowed for loading and unloading a ship (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); ship's husband (see husband n. 4 b); ship's protest (see protest n. 3); ship's registry (see quot.); ship's time, the local mean time of the meridian where the ship is.
1647Hexham i, A ships anker, Een schips anker.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 278 The *Ship's Apparel, as Boats, Anchors, Sails, Cordage.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship's Articles. 1875Kay Shipmasters & Seamen ix. xvii. 704 Which by the special terms of his ship's articles was to cause a forfeiture of wages.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship's-block Maker, a manufacturer of large blocks for ship's use.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 19 These [sc. a captain's servants], tho' just pick'd off from a Taylor's Shop-board, are rated able on his *Ship's Books.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 155 The *ships-castle behinde was most commonly adorned with the picture of one or other God.
1834Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 344 *Ship's Corporal... *Ship's Cook.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast viii, However useful and active you may be, you are but a mongrel,—a sort of afterguard and ‘*ship's cousin’.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 13 The wretched *Ship's Crew..get scarce the very Husk, whilst he [the captain] runs away with the Flower of the Cargo.
Ibid. 73 He cannot but pity the Surgeon's Simplicity, for calling himself the *Ship's Doctor, when all the World knows, that none but the Carpenter looks to her Wounds. 1974L. Deighton Spy Story xviii. 190 There was the ship's doctor.
1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 405/1 Parts of *ship's furniture.
1835Tomlins' Law-Dict. s.v. Ship's Papers, The Log Book, or *Ship's Journal.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 47 *Ship's Log Maker.
1886Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Jan. 5/2 That comparatively small but highly important section of our sailors generally described as ‘*ships' officers’.
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 194 *Ship's protest, which should be compared with the log-book, and certified by the agent.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Ship's Pump, a suction-pump for freeing a ship's hold from water.
1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 100 The standing part of the sheate, is that part which is made fast, by a clinch into a ring of the *ships-quarter.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship's registry and certificate, an official record of a ship's size, the bills of lading, ownership, &c.
Ibid., *Ship's steward, the person who manages the victualling or mess departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward.
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 240 A *Ship's Time⁓piece has usually a lever escapement.
1881Naval Encycl. 745/2 *Ship's writer, a petty officer who, under the directions of the executive-officer, does the writing and keeps the watch-, muster-, conduct-, and other books of the ship. 1891Patterson Naut. Dict. 384 Ship's Writer,..is a first class petty officer, and his duty is to keep the names and rates of the ship's company. 1969T. Parker Twisting Lane 43 He wasn't a sailor, he was a kind of a clerk on board ship... I believe he was called a ship's writer.
1850*Ship's yeoman [see yeoman 2 c].
1891Patterson Naut. Dict. 356 Equipment Yeoman, formerly called ship's yeoman.
▪ II. ship, n.2 Printing.
A colloquial abbreviation of companionship 3.
1875Southward Dict. Typogr. 18 The best ‘ship’ is kept going with work from the others, rather than be suffered to stand still. 1882― Pract. Printing (1884) 221 The chief of the companionship or ‘ship’..receives the copies from the overseer.
▪ III. ship, v.|ʃɪp|
Forms: 1 scipian, scypian, 3–5 schype, (3 ssipe), 4–5 schipe, schepe, 4–6 schippe, schyppe, 4–7 shipe, shippe, shyppe, (5 shipp), 6–7 schip, 6– ship.
[late OE. scipian, f. scip ship n.1; cf. MLG. schêpen, (M)Du. schepen, MHG., G. schiffen, ON. skipa. In the later senses a new formation directly f. ship n.1]
†1.
a. pass. To be furnished with a ship or ships.
c900O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 893, Se micla here..wurdon ᵹescipode. 1594Kyd Cornelia v. 298 Seeing himselfe at anchor, slightly shipt, Besieg'd, betraide by winde. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 47 Mon. Is he well ship'd? Cassio. His Barke is stoutly Timber'd. 1647Hexham i, Shiped, Gescheept.
†b. refl. To provide oneself with a ship. Obs.—1
1627Capt. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 55 Euery horseman cannot mount himself alike, neither euery Seaman ship himselfe as he would.
†2. To equip or launch (a vessel). Obs.
Cf.1224–5Foreign Acc., L.T.R. No. 1 Municione et Schippatione nauium et galiarum.
1052O.E. Chron. (MS. C), Þa let Eadward cyng scypian .xl. snacca. c1500Melusine 118 He..made fourthwith a galyotte to be shipped redy. Ibid. 268 Go make a galyot to be shipped redy with ten oores.
3. a. To put or take (persons or things) on board ship; to cause (a person) to embark; to place (goods) in a ship for transportation.
13..K. Alis. 6062 He schipeth heom in schipes cayvars, In dromondes, and in lumbars. 1425Rolls of Parlt. IV. 276/1 The said Merchantz Englissh, that shippen, or shall shippe any Merchandise. 1465Paston Lett. Suppl. 93 To remember that Guton malt must be shipped at Blakeney. 1513Pace in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 179 An army..whiche he affirmith to be nowe schippidde redy to passe the see. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 67 We shippyd our horses at Caleys. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. 11 Pigmalions riches was shipt. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 100 King Henry the fifth, was shipping his men for France. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2486/3 The Lord Hewit's Regiment of Horse will be shipped to morrow. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xiii. 271 He was shipped on board a vessel bound to Old Spain. 1818Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. 216, I rather fear that a quantity of game which was shipped awhile ago at Inverness for the Doctor, never reached him. 1866Crump Banking vi. 139 Upon a cargo being shipped, bills of lading..are filled up with the name of the shipper. 1885Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 41 §17 Any harbour or any works in or at which vessels can..ship or unship goods or passengers.
fig.1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 16 After long travaile through the Asian maine, I shipt my hopefull thoughts for Brittany.
absol.1479Cely Papers (Camden) 18, I wyll nat schepe tyll I have my money hom in lecters of payment. 1482Ibid. 104 Syr thay hawhe begwn to schype at London. 1530Palsgr. 703/2 We can nat go hence yet, we have nat all shypped.
b. said of the ship.
1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames xiii. 374 All vessels shall ship or take in all their cargoes..below the Canal at Blackwall. 1882‘Ouida’ Maremma ii, A little vessel was shipping grain.
†4.
a. pass. Of a person: To have gone on board, to be embarked. Obs.
c1300Prose Life St. Brandan (Percy) 37 Whan they were all shypped, sodeynly this yonge man vanysshed away. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 387 Thei are schepped now eche a wyght. a1450Lovelich Grail lvi. 114 Thike same Nyht..that In to the See I-scheped they were. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. i. i. 73 Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already. a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. i, My royal father is both shipp'd and gone. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 203 We heard that all the Spaniards..were shipped. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. (1626) 120 As soone as shipt; as soone as actiue ores Had mou'd the surges.
Proverb.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent 209 Least otherwise the Reader..might be shipped in the boate of this errour. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. xix. 334 This is the way wherein Christ must bee followed by as manie as desire to be shipped with him, to bee of the number of his people. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton (1906) 8 He that is shipped with the devil must sail with the devil.
b. refl. To go on board ship, embark. Also with off (cf. 7 b). Obs. or arch.
c1400Destr. Troy 1783 Antenor..Shippit hym full shortly & his shene folke. 1600R. Carr tr. Mahumetan Hist. 62 b, Who..was commaunded to ship himselfe againe in a barque that was prepared. 1607E. Sharpham Fleire ii. (1610) E 1, Ile send you to Graues-end, Ile see you in the Tilt-boate, When you are there, ship your selues. a1647Pette in Archæologia XII. 219, I was constrained to ship myself to sea upon a desperate voyage. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 505 They shipp'd themselves to serve in the Ship. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. III. lii. 129 The Puritans, restrained in England, shipped themselves off for America. 1831Scott Cast Dang. xx, It was thought that the waves had swallowed them when they shipped themselves from the west.
5. intr. To go on board ship, embark. Now rare.
a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1091 Se eorl..on Wiht scipode & into Normandiᵹ for. c1290S. Eng. Leg. 467/179 Huy schypeden in þe salte se. c1300K. Horn 1013 (Laud MS.) Þe page was blyþe And schepede wel swyþe. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 575 Then schippyt thai, for-owtyn mar. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 28 Þer er many hauens for to schippe at. c1468in Archæologia (1846) XXXI. 327 The Fryedaye next after the Nativite of Sainct John Baptist, she shippid at Margate. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 1, I shipped at Rye, in Sussex. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 378 Quhen at Leith tha had shipit in. 1599Dekker Shoemakers Hol. (1610) B 2 Tis his highnesse will, That presently your cosen shippe for France With all his powers. 1690Lond. Gaz. 2551/3 The 400 Horse..and many Foot..marched to Highlake, where, it's believed, they are Shipping this day. 1891Spectator 17 Jan., People wishing to get from London to New York..ship at Liverpool.
6. a. To go by ship to, into, or from a place. Now chiefly U.S. Cf. sense 6 c below.
13..Metr. Hom. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 265 Faste he drouh toward þe se For schipen he wolde to oþur þede. 1382Wyclif Acts xx. 6 We schipiden aftir dayes of therf looues fro Philippis. c1400Rowland & O. 742 Þay Schipped ouer at Vertely In to þe landes of lumbardy. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 1, I determyned me to take that voyage and shipped from Southampton. 1535Coverdale Matt. xiv. 34 They shipped ouer, & came in to the londe of Genazereth. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 247 The Emperour, speedily shipped ouer into Asia. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 79 [They] have slipt away and shipt hence. 1904H. James Golden Bowl II. xxxvii. 279 You regularly make me wish that I had shipped back to American City. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xvi. 171 By the time Frank and his units left the armory and shipped to Fort Lee there was a lot of bad blood.
†b. To sail about. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 95 He hadde schipped aboute Est Engelonde [circumnavigata Estanglia]. c1450Mirk's Festial 260 As I was schyppyng yn þe see, I come to an yle.
c. U.S. Mil. slang. to ship out: to depart, to be transported; also fig. (cf. shape up or ship out s.v. shape v. 19 e); to ship over: to re-enlist, to volunteer for a tour of duty.
1908L. G. Tisdale Three Years behind Guns xxiii. 259 Do you want to ship over? 1924Anderson & Stallings What Price Glory? i. i. 7 When I left China the Yangtse was full of the bodies of virgins that drowned their beautiful selves because I was shipping over. 1948[see cash v.2 2 b]. 1953CEC Bull. Jan. 31/1 This outfit shipped out of Davisville 12 September 1943. 1964G. L. Coon Short End 223, I wouldn't ship over in Korea, and especially in Pankari. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xvi. 171 At the end of the month, when everybody shipped out, I bought Frank a present.
7. a. trans. To send or transport by ship. † to ship out: to export.
1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 160 Saffron, quiksilver,..Is into Fflaundres shypped fulle craftylye. 1495Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 12 Bocht in Handwarp and schepit in the Cristoffir of the Fer. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 27 §1 Wolle felles..to be shipped owte of the seid Realme to the seid Staple at Cales. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. i. 30 The Sun no sooner shall the Mountaines touch, But we will ship him hence. 1656Tucker Rep. Revenues Scot. (Bannatyne Club) 26 South Barwick, where the Scots and English both did usually shippe out Skyns, Hides, Wooll. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 39 One half of the Produce being to himself, and the other to be shipp'd to England. 1725Pope Odyss. xv. 419 Rude pirates seized, and shipped thee o'er the main. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. i, The third [son] was a Roué, and was shipped to the Colonies. 1861Goschen For. Exch. 127 To ship the silver to England. 1892Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 53 Ship me somewheres east of Suez. 1912Times 19 Dec. 15/4 Goods shipped in the mail vessels.
b. esp. with off.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties & Forfeitures, If any Wharfinger..shall..Ship off..any Wares..at any unlawful time. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4239/1 They Shipt off 900 of their sick and wounded Men. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v., The inhabitants ship off yearly..seven or eight thousand chaldrons of coal. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 195 He would himself send the recusant to prison, or ship him off for Flanders. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 38 Till their numbers became excessive and these were shipped off by the prudence of their rulers to found colonies.
c. transf. To transport (goods) by rail or other means of conveyance. U.S.
1857Harper's Mag. Sept. 459/2 A few of the more enterprising operators..thought nothing of shipping two or three thousand tons per annum. 1881Chicago Times 17 June, To ship their freight by rail. 1885Harper's Mag. Apr. 663/2 We..shipped our..collection of luggage to the hotel.
d. fig. To send off, send packing, get rid of, dismiss, expel.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 206 Andronicus, would thou were shipt to hell. 1826in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) II. 31 After a good deal of bustle, all were shipped off, except Aunt Cunningham. 1857Trollope Three Clerks xviii, Old Foolscap says he'll ship me the next time I'm absent half-an-hour without leave.
e. intr. Of perishable goods: to admit of being transported.
1867Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. VII. 510 It ships well, and is a very good peach. 1927Daily Express 9 Nov. 5/5 Persimmons..will probably be as plentiful and popular as the banana, because it ships well and grows..freely.
8. Of a vessel: To take in (water) over the side; to be submerged or flooded with (water) by waves breaking over it; esp. to ship a sea. Said also of the occupants of the vessel.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 13 In this Encounter we shipped many a perilous Sea. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 9 Our Ship rid Forecastle in, shipp'd several Seas. a1734North Life Dudley North (1744) 15 We shipt Seas over our Poop. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. v. 342 Baling out the water which she accidentally ships. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xx. (1856) 153 Driving before the wind, shipping seas at every roll. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xvii, The rowing ceased,..and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a drop.
9. a. To take or draw (an object) into the ship or boat to which it belongs. Also with up.
1630in Binnell Descr. Thames (1758) 65 No Fisherman..shall at any Time hereafter ship their Draw-Nets (called Shipping a-stern) into their Boats, before such Time as they have laid forth all their whole Net. 1894Outing XXIV. 257/2 As we shipped up our rod the natives began to assemble. 1898W. W. Jacobs Sea Urchins (1906) 213 The visitors went ashore, the gangway was shipped, and..the Curlew drifted slowly away from the quay.
b. To lift (an oar or scull) out of its rowlock, and (now, in sculling) to bring it into the boat (cf. boat v. 1 and unship v.). (See also quot. 1898.) Also absol. as a command = ‘ship oars!’
For another sense of ‘ship oars’ see 10.
1700Dryden Ceyx & Alc. 92 The Sailors ship their Oars, and cease to row. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 470 And now they ship their oars, and crown with wine The holy goblet to the powers divine. 1857P. Colquhoun Comp. ‘Oarsman's Guide’ 32 To ship the oar or scull is to jerk it out of the row⁓lock, and to boat it, to bring it on board. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. ii, The stranger came to the bank, shipped his sculls, and jumped out. 1894Crockett Raiders 14, I shipped the oars and lay back thinking. 1896J. Ashby-Sterry Tale of Thames xxi, ‘Easy all!’ says Auntie, following the command by ‘Ship!’ 1898Encycl. Sport II. 297/2 (Rowing) Ship, to lift the handle of the oar when the blade is on the water, and then to allow it to float, with the motion of the boat, alongside.
10. a. orig. and esp. Naut. To put (an object) in position for performing its proper function; spec. to fix (an oar) in the rowlock, in readiness to row; hence, to put in position for any purpose.
1616Chapman Musæus 352 His faire Limbes of his weede, he strip't: Which, at his head, with both hands bound, he shipt. 17..Greenland Voy. iii. in Coll. Old Ballads (1738) III. 173 Each Man ship his Oar, and leave nothing on Shoar That is needful the Voy'ge to advance. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v., To ship the oars, i.e. to fix them in their row-locks. To ship the swivel-guns, is to fix them in their sockets. 1798in Nicolas Disp. (1845) III. 53 He had a new rudder made upon his own deck, which was immediately shipped. 1833C. Sturt Exped. S. Austral. II. 166 Seven or eight [natives]..crept into the reeds, with their spears shipped to throw at us. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. Seine 33 Shipping a single oar in the stern, [he] began to scull out with all his might. 1837Marryat Snarleyyow xlvii, The skylight was shipped on again. 1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific vii. 71 Which mast and sail are..never shipped until required. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man (1862) 195 No. 3..ships and unships the handspike. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., Ship capstan-bars. 1881Daily Tel. 28 Jan., A hole big enough to ship the mainmast in.
b. intr. (for pass.). To admit of being placed in position; to have a certain position in a contrivance.
1833B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 80 [The pan] is made to ship and unship. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1169 The top-sides..which are fitted to ship and unship as occasion may require.
11. a. To put on (clothing, etc.); also, to shoulder (a burden).
1829Maw Jrnl. Pass. Pacific 16 Their regard for new and gay shoes, of which they ‘ship’ a new pair every Sunday morning. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son lxiv, He..took off his white jacket, and shipped a blue one. 1834Marryat Peter Simple xli, I had shipped the swab... I'm lieutenant. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xxxiii. 236 He pauses, ships a new face altogether. 1910Blackw. Mag. Dec. 758/2 The bearers fitted their shoulders under the straps and shipped their burden.
b. to ship a stripe: to gain promotion in the navy or air-force. colloq.
1915H. Rosher In R.N.A.S. (1916) 38, I see in this morning's paper that I have shipped another stripe (Flight Lieutenant). 1924Blackw. Mag. Mar. 333/2 For once his clothes were more interesting than mine for he had ‘shipped’ his half-stripe, and was a whole degree more important in the world!
12. a. trans. To engage for service on a ship.
1643Decl. Commons (Reb. Ireland) 50 He..was shipped..to serve in the said Frigot. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 150, I was Shipt Mate of the Sloop that came from Malacca with us. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 15 It was my great Misfortune, that in all these Adventures I did not ship myself as a Sailor. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xiv, Instead of shipping some hands to make our work easier.
b. intr. To engage to serve on a ship.
1829Marryat F. Mildmay xxi, We never ask questions when a seaman ships for us. 1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific xi. 145 One of the Spaniards shipped on board as an ordinary seaman. 1891Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 27 As soon as the money's gone they'll ship, but not before.
▪ IV. ship, shippe
var. ff. chip n.2, share-beam.
1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 115 Next to the Share, is the Shippe. Ibid., The Ship is not only that peece which holdeth the Share, but is placed beneath next the earth. |