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shippound|ˈʃɪpˈpaʊnd|
Also 6 schip pund, 8 schippound, scheppund, 9 shippund.
[ad. MLG. schippunt (see also skippound) or MDu. schippond; whence ON. skippund, G. schiffpfund, etc.]
A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, varying from 300 to 400 pounds; = 20 lispounds.
1545Rates of Customs d vj, In Spruce lande..xx. lispoundes facit a shyp pounde. 1560Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 75 For half schip pund irn. 1615in Compt bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) 263, 6 schip pund gaid Irone. 1654Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Amb. (1772) II. 120, 200 shippownd of copper to be brought from the mines to Stockholme. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xi. 51 The quantity of the hemp is generally about forty thousand schippounds. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 49 The furnaces and forges [in Sweden] produce yearly 400000 scheppund. 1858Homans Cycl. Comm. 423 The commercial weights [of Copenhagen] are, 16 pounds = 1 lispound; 20 lispound = 1 shippound. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 306, 19,000 ship pounds of iron exported from Gothenburg. |