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ˈship-craft
[See craft n. 6. In late OE. scipcræft is recorded in the sense of ‘strength in ships’.]
The art of navigation or of ship-construction.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. iii. (Skeat) l. 46 Er I was war, I neyghed to a see-banke; and for ferde of the beestes ‘shipcraft’ I cryde. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxxiv. (Tollem. MS.), Men þat seyleþ and haueþ schipcrafte [scientiam navalem habentium]. 1408–9tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 224/2 Þer nys non gretter peril in schipcraft þanne whenne þe grene tymbre makeþ þe schip to grenne & to gape. c1440York Myst. viii. 67 Of shippe-craft can I right noght, Of ther makyng haue I no merke.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 164 Laertes is a man who finds himself in a storm without knowledge of shipcraft. a1890R. W. Church Oxf. Movement iii. (1891) 36 He..took interest in the niceties of seamanship and shipcraft. |