shippoundn.

/ˈʃɪpˈpaʊnd/

Forms: Also 1500s schip pund, 1700s schipound, schippound, scheppund, 1800s shippund.

Etymology: < Middle Low German schippunt (see also skippound n.) or Middle Dutch schippond; whence Old Norse skippund, German schiffpfund, etc.

A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, varying from 300 to 400 pounds; = 20 lispounds.

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1545 Rates Custome House sig. dvj In Spruce lande..xx. lispoundes facit a shyp pounde.

1560 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 75 For half schip pund irn.

1615 in Compt bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) 263 6 schip pund gaid Irone.

1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) II. 120 200 shippownd of copper to be brought from the mines to Stockholme.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xi. 77 The quantity of the hemp is generally about 40,000 schipounds [1754 schippounds].

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 49 The furnaces and forges [in Sweden] produce yearly 400000 scheppund.

1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 423 The commercial weights [of Copenhagen] are, 16 pounds = 1 lispound; 20 lispound = 1 shippound.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 306 19,000 ship pounds of iron exported from Gothenburg.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	shippound
释义	shippoundn. /ˈʃɪpˈpaʊnd/ Forms: Also 1500s schip pund, 1700s schipound, schippound, scheppund, 1800s shippund. Etymology: < Middle Low German schippunt (see also skippound n.) or Middle Dutch schippond; whence Old Norse skippund, German schiffpfund, etc. A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, varying from 300 to 400 pounds; = 20 lispounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units of weight in Baltic trade lispound1545 shippound1545 skippound1622 1545 Rates Custome House sig. dvj In Spruce lande..xx. lispoundes facit a shyp pounde. 1560 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 75 For half schip pund irn. 1615 in Compt bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) 263 6 schip pund gaid Irone. 1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) II. 120 200 shippownd of copper to be brought from the mines to Stockholme. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xi. 77 The quantity of the hemp is generally about 40,000 schipounds [1754 schippounds]. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 49 The furnaces and forges [in Sweden] produce yearly 400000 scheppund. 1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 423 The commercial weights [of Copenhagen] are, 16 pounds = 1 lispound; 20 lispound = 1 shippound. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 306 19,000 ship pounds of iron exported from Gothenburg. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1545
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