† shipbrechen.

Forms: Also Old English shipbryce, Middle English shipbruche, shipburch.

Etymology: < ship n.¹ + breach n., bruche n.¹ Compare West Frisian skipbrek, Middle Low German schipbroke, Middle Dutch schipbroke, -breuke (Dutch -breuk), Middle High German, German schiffbruch.

Obsolete.

Shipwreck. In late Old English recorded only in the sense ‘right to claim what is cast up on the shore in a shipwreck’.

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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun]

shipbrechea1067

ship-breaking1398

ship-brechinga1400

shipwreckc1450

wreck1463

wrake1513

wrack1579

naufrage1589

wrecking1775

a1067 Charter in Kemble Cod. Dipl. (1846) IV. 208 Ic habbe gegeofen Criste and sancte Marie..forestall and hamsocne, griðbryce and scipbryce, and ða sæ upwarp..æt Bramcæstre and æt Ringstyde.

?a1100 Charter in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1655) I. 237/2 Mundbriche, feardwite,..infongenthef, sypbriche, tol, & tem.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 369 Schipmen þat seilled in þe see in to shipbruche.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 369 And þerfore me seide þat þey brouȝte hem to ship~breche.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xii. xii Schipmen trowiþ þat it bodeþ goode ȝif þei mete swannes in perile of schipburch [1495 shippe breche].

c1440 Gesta Romanorum xiv. 48 Penaunce is þe secunde table aftir Shipbreche.

Derivatives

† ship-breching n. (also ship-breging) Obsolete cf. bryg at breach n. Forms.

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