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shipping, vbl. n.|ˈʃɪpɪŋ|
Also 3 scipping, 4–6 schipp-, schypp-, 5–6 shypping, shepping, (4 schepynge, schippyne, 5 schuppynge, schipin, schypyng, 7 shiping).
[f. ship v. + -ing1. Cf. MLG. schêpinge sea voyage, fleet.]
1. A ship or ships for the use or accommodation of a person or thing.
a. in phrases: † to do, dight, put to shipping, to put on board; to take († one's) shipping (now arch.), to embark; occas. pregnantly, to go abroad; also to deliver to shipping (? U.S.).
a1300Cursor M. 24815 Elsis to scipping son him did. c1375Ibid. 24828 (Fairf.) Þai diȝt him to shipping sone. a1400Arthur 339 Eche man hath take his schuppynge. c1440Generydes 4186 Anone thei putt ther horses to shippyng. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) I. 153 Another partye peryshyd by swerd and that other toke schyppyng. 1535Boorde Let. in Introd. Knowl. (1870) 56, I was in cathalonya when þe emprowre tok sheppyng in-to barbary. c1643Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1824) 104 My Lord Chandos and myself resolved to take Shipping for the Low Countries. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2647/4 'Tis believed he will take Shipping. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. i, I..took shipping in the Downs on the 20th day of June, 1702. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. I. 285 Taking shipping for Italy, he was once more wrecked. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. v, The troops all took shipping. 1856Olmsted Slave States 48 It is delivered to shipping at Richmond, at fifteen cents a bushel.
†b. In general use (sometimes passing into abstract sense = accommodation on board ship, provision of a ship or ships); also pl. ships.
13..Cursor M. 24807 (Gött.) Sone it was his schipping tift wid presand. 13..K. Alis 990 Gold and seolver, and othir thynges, They trussed to heore schepynges. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 400 He gat schippyne gud plente. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xx. 92 Bot for he..myght get schipping na ferrere, he turned agayne as he come. 14..Beues 2669 Let vs haue shyppynge to, And we shal to that yle go. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 772 Bot gif he had shippyng wroght Whilk as nane wer sene beforne. c1468in Archæologia (1846) XXXI. 327 It plesid the kinge to follow aftir hir, and to see her shippinges. 1576Gascoigne Philomene xxxiv, But..Their shipping is preparde. 1579in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 428 He would so bring the one halfe quarter or therd parte in any suche shipp or shippinges coming to Galway. 1620R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) II. 119 Yt was agreed Mr. Ed. Sayer shall goe merchant in the shipp Bull, and Robt. Hawley and Ric. King..to goe in other shipping. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 100 This wheate is carryed by shippinge to Newe-Castle. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxiv, I will..seize on shipping, and embark for Flanders. 1829― Anne of G. xxviii, I will take care that Blackburn and his cousin-archers have no assistance of shipping from Flanders.
2. Ships collectively; the body of ships that belong to a person's or country's fleet, that frequent a particular port or harbour, or that are used for a certain purpose.
1591Queen Elizabeth Procl. 16 Sept., No Corne nor other Victuall, nor any Ordonance, nor furniture for shipping. c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 4 Five of the Queenes shippinge. 1601Hakluyt tr. Galvano's Discov. 90 From thence vpwards in small shipping he went along the coast of the Abassins and Ethiopia. 1602Carew Cornwall 27 b, Cornewall is stored with many sorts of shipping. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties & Forfeitures 1 Goods Imported..in Forreign Shipping. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1691) 99 There are employed in the Guinny and American Trade, above forty thousand Tun of Shipping per annum. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 63 A river very commodious for shipping. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix, He..ventured down toward the shipping, to see if the vessel had sailed. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 373 Cork Harbour and Bantry Bay are among the finest asylums for shipping in the world. 1897Henty On Irrawaddy viii, The British sick were sent away in the shipping to Mergy.
†3.
a. Navigation. Obs.
a1400New Test. (Paues) Acts xxvii. 9 Whanne..was no forþer siker schippynge ande saylynge. 1581A. Hall Iliad ii. 37 They little reake for marine worke, and small for shipping care. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Gov. Eng. i. iv. (1739) 9 Ireland was nigh, but we find nothing concerning their interest in shipping. a1700Evelyn Diary 4 Feb. 1685, A lover of the sea, and skilfull in shipping.
†b. A voyage, a sailing. Obs.
God send you good shipping! was used proverbially in the 16th and 17th c. as a wish for success in any venture.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 183/2 He made a shyppyng into grete brytaygne. c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears iv. ii, God send you good shipping. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. B 4, Gone he is; God send him good shipping to Wapping. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. v. i. 43. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xxiii. 246 If his said men be sent in two shippings, then he shall goe in the last. 1668Dryden Even. Love v. i, My master's in; heavens send him good shipping with his lie. 1688Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 236 He believed he should receive his answer by y⊇ ffirst Shipping hether out of England.
4. The action of putting persons or things on board ship or transporting them by ship.
1483Cely Papers (Camden) 144 Item Syr understond that schyppyng ys begon at London. 1499Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 161 Paid for the schipin of my Lordis stan in Brugis..24s. 1532Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 156 For pynour fee and schipping of the wyne, aill, and gunnis xij d. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 385 Of the paine in shipping, of the care in conueying your wares..home to your owne house. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties & Forfeitures 3 Goods are forfeited for Undue Shipping or Landing. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. x. 410 A licence for the shipping of his stores and provisions. 1821J. Smyth Pract. Customs 278 Unless the Wine be imported..directly from..the usual port or place of its first shipping. 1884Leeds Mercury 15 Nov. 6/5 The shipping of her récidivistes to penal settlements.
†5. A ship's company. Obs. rare.
14..Beues 4286 He toke his leve at the kyng And at all his seli shyppyng.
6. a. attrib. and Comb., as shipping-centre, shipping-clerk, shipping company, shipping-crane, shipping house, shipping-interest, shipping lane, shipping line, shipping-place, shipping-point, shipping-port, shipping-trade, shipping-yard.
1898Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Oct. 300 *Shipping centers on navigable rivers.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Shipping-clerk, a merchant's clerk who attends to the shipment of goods.
1897Whitaker's Almanack 709/1 The New Zealand *Shipping Company was established to run steamers direct to New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia. 1924Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 239/1 Shipping companies are complaining that apple shipments are not as heavy as they desire.
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 104 *Shipping crane with a Reysing gynne.
1919Brit. Manuf. Nov. 40/2 The attempt to do away with the *shipping house.
1824Holt Shipping & Navig. Laws (ed. 2) Introd. 24 This statute has conferred a most solid benefit upon the *shipping interest.
1931W. G. Carr By Guess & by God xii. 194 German submarines which..lurked about the *shipping lanes waiting to attack the Allied merchantmen. 1974L. Deighton Spy Story xii. 122 Ice-breakers keeping two shipping lanes clear all through the winter.
1908J. R. Smith Ocean Carrier ii. iii. 275 The starting of rival *shipping lines is deterred by the certainty of fierce competition. 1981A. Graham-Yooll Forgotten Colony xviii. 244 The Houlder Brothers shipping line..had been prominent in the meat trade for almost one century.
1766Stork Acc. E. Florida 63 To carry it [viz. sugar]..a considerable distance to the *shipping-places.
1874Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 309 The town of Labran is the *shipping-point of the Cañon City coal.
1843A. Bethune Sc. Peas. Fireside 114 One of the *shipping ports on the west coast of Scotland.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 128 The..Advance of the *Shipping Trade.
1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 4 A noisy *shipping yard.
b. Special comb.: shipping-agent, a licensed agent who transacts a ship's business for the owner; shipping-articles = ship's articles (see ship n. 10 c); shipping-bill, a bill of lading; shipping-broker = ship-broker (see ship n. 10); shipping fever Vet. Sci. (orig. U.S.), any of several diseases typically contracted by cattle while being shipped from place to place, esp. one caused by bacteria of the genus Pasteurella; shipping-master, an official who superintends the signing-on and discharging of seamen; † shipping-money = ship-money; shipping-note, a note containing particulars of goods for shipment (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858); shipping-office, (a) an office where seamen sign on for a voyage; (b) ‘an office where a shipping-agent receives goods for shipment’ (Funk's Standard Dict.); shipping-order (see quot.); shipping ore, ore suitable for being shipped; shipping-papers = ship's papers; shipping tobacco, tobacco grown for export.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xiii, Various *shipping-agents in the city.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix, He went to a shipping-office, where the *shipping articles of the California were open.
1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 52 §71 The Person clearing such Goods for Shipment..shall..deliver a *Shipping Bill.
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xxxvii, A worthy young merchant or *shipping-broker.
1932Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. LXXX. 165 The incidence of *shipping fever was greatest during wet, cold weather. 1955Sci. News Let. 15 Oct. 249/3 Shipping fever, the costly cattle disease that strikes like human influenza, makes the movement of cattle from range to feedlot one of the most dangerous activities in the livestock industry. 1970T. G. Hungerford Dis. Livestock (ed. 7) 332/1 Smeal recorded a case which clinically suggested shipping fever.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast. xxix, He was told by the *shipping-master that she was bound to California. 1853Maude & Pollock Law Merch. Shipping iv. 92 Shipping offices, superintended by persons called shipping masters.
1640in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. 3/2 The *shipping mony may be putt vigorously vppon collection. 1840*Shipping-office [see shipping articles above].
1844Francis Dict. Trade, etc., *Shipping Order, is a written mandate directed by a merchant to his lighterman, ordering him to receive and put on board a certain ship the goods specified in the order.
1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 242 The ore-vein yields a large portion of ‘*shipping’ or first-class ore.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix, The *shipping-papers of the Pilgrim, from which my name had never been erased.
1883Killebrew in Rep. 10th Census U.S. III. iii. 194 Dark *Shipping tobacco is generally raised on rich lots. |