shipn.1
/ʃɪp/, U.S. /ʃɪp/ 1.
a.
(a) A large sea-going vessel (opposed to a boat); spec. (in modern times) a vessel having a bowsprit and three masts, each of which consists of a lower, top, and topgallant mast.In Old English used also for small craft, as Old Norse skip.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun]
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beamOE
boardOE
bargea1300
steera1300
vessela1300
treea1382
loomc1400
man1473
ark1477
bottom1490
keela1547
riverboat1565
craft1578
pine1592
class1596
flood-bickerer1599
pitchboard1599
stern-bearer1599
wooden horse1599
wooden isle1603
water treader?1615
water house1616
watercraft1618
machine1637
prore1642
lightman1666
embarkation1690
bark1756
prowa1771
Mudian1813
bastiment1823
hooker1823
nymph1876
M.F.V.1948
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > ship as larger than boat
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with three masts > ship
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c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 188 Scaphum, scip.
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxviii. §1 Ða se Aulixes..to þam gefiohte for, þa hæfde he sume hundred scipa.
c1050 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C) ann. 1048 Eadward cining & þa eorlas foran æfter þam ut mid heora scypun.
c1200 Vices & Virtues 45 Hlesteð hwat ðe hlauerd seið, ðe ðat scip auh, to ðe stieres~mannen.
a1225 Juliana (Royal MS.) 32/12 Þu leddest israeles folc þurh þe reade sea buten schip druifot.
c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 32 And so hi were in þo ssipe so a-ros a great tempeste of winde.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. x. 160 A schup of schides and Bordes.
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 21 No ship yit karf the wawes grene and blewe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13280 Petre and andreu..Wit a word þai left þair scipps [Gött. schippis] tuin.
c1400 Three Kings Cologne (1886) 84 Þat þey had suffrid hem priuelich to passe ouer þe see in her scheppys.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 370 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 161 Quhat schepe þat brokine ware a-pone þat coste.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1423 Master of þe shepe, a word with the.
1541 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 149 I give to Mathue Wilson my shipe called Marie Janies.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 355 The skiper of the scheipe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 180 My ships come home a month before the day. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 714 A stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles Of Javan or Gadier. View more context for this quotation
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 84 There's near as much Stuff drops from his [sc. a sea-cook's] Carcass every Day, as would tallow the Ship's Bottom.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4380/3 One of the Rocks not being a Ships length to Leeward of her.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 7 The Ship was cheer'd, the Harbour clear'd.
1873 H. W. Longfellow Elizabeth in Aftermath i. 59 Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. viii. 102 The bottom and side plating of all ships is arranged in longitudinal layers or strakes.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 878/2 Ships with four and five masts were employed by several countries during the 19th century.
(b) Ships are now personified as feminine, but usage has varied (see the following quots.).The use of the masculine pronoun in the 17th and 18th cent. was probably suggested by the application of man to a ship in Dutchman, merchantman, man-of-war. In instances before c1650 his may mean ‘its’.
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c1426 Poem on Agincourt in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 97 Euery shyp wayed his anker.., They hoysed theyr sayles sayled a lofte.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 624 And yar schip yai lychtyt sone..And scho yat swa wes maid lycht Raykyt slidand throw ye se.
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 24 In a Shyppe, the Rudder ought to be no lesse then may suffise to direct hys course.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 95 The Shippe boaring the Moone with her maine Mast. View more context for this quotation
1622 J. Rawlins Famous Recoverie Ship of Bristoll sig. C2v The people..cried out, a saile, a saile, which, at last, was discouered to be another man of warre of Turkes: for he made toward vs.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 59 A saile, how beares she or stands shee, to wind-ward or lee-ward, set him by the Compasse; he stands right ahead, or on the weather-Bow, or lee-Bow.]
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie Argt. As a Ship which..cannot move beyond the length of his Cable.
1676 S. Master Diary 28 Dec. (1911) II. 93 Wee mett a great Dutch ship neare Nassapore point. He wore a Flagg.
1784 New Spect. XIII. 2/1 The last [ship was] drowned and swallowed up, within sight of his own shore.
b. Without article, chiefly in dependence on a preposition. Also to take ship (see take v. 68a).
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c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. i. 256 Swa eode he in scip & ferde to Breotone.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1046 Hi..wurpon hine on þone bat..& reowan to scipe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 551 Brutus nom Ignogen & into scipe [c1300 Otho to sipe] lædde.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1464 Þe emperour bigan to fle mid is folc atte laste To scipes.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5088 Partenedon passed to schepe & his puple after.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 354 Er þt he myghte gete his wyf to shipe.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 45 Guion fledd also in to affricque by shipp.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 29 He..went to Ship, setting aside all perils.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 175 Finding him againe as soone as themselues by shippe were arriued on the contrarie side.
1888 Daily News 5 Oct. 5/3 The..price..is said to have been fully fivepence farthing a pound ex ship.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 20/3 Oats..American white, ex ship, 18s. 4½d.
c. In legal enactments often with greatly extended application, as in the following quot. 1870:
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1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 90 §30 ‘Ship’ shall include any description of boat, vessel, floating battery, or floating craft; also any description of boat, vessel, or other craft or battery, made to move either on the surface of or under water, or sometimes on the surface of and sometimes under water.
d. In rowing parlance, applied to the racing eight-oar boat; also used playfully of other craft.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing
boat1829
torpid1838
wager-boat1844
skiff1845
slogger1852
whiff1859
gig1865
best boat1866
shell1867
ship1878
sculling four1885
rum-tum1891
Togger1891
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 14 The bargee is on shipboard—he is master in his own ship—he can land whenever he will.
1888 W. B. Woodgate Boating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 147 She..was once specially borrowed by Corpus (Oxon) during the summer eights, and was said by that crew to be a vast improvement on their own ship.
1896 J. Ashby-Sterry Tale of Thames v Here they leave their ship and quietly stroll up to the New Inn.
1901 Daily News 1 Apr. 5/7 The..steadiness of their ship..helped the Oxford men very much.
e. figurative. Applied to the state.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > sphere of politics or affairs of state > the ship of state
ship1675
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince ix, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 212 But when times are tempestuous, and the ship of the State has need of the help..of the Subject.
1894 W. E. Gladstone tr. Horace Odes iii. viii. 26 Though the State-ship somewhat heave.
1913 19th Cent. Feb. 305 The Ship of the State of China is still labouring in a storm-swept ocean.
2. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 65 Gales & grete schipis full of grym wapens.1450 Lomner Let. to J. Paston 5 May Yn the syght of all his men he was drawyn ought of the grete shippe.1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 36 The Kings ship cald the Grace dieu.1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 161 The costes of Kepyng the Kynges Ship Ryall called the Soueraigne.1512 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1712) XIII. 328/2 All Prisoners, beyng Chieftens..and one Shippe Royall being of the Portage of Two Hundred Tonnes or above..Reserved to our said Soveraign Lord.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 688 The Easterlynges..approched the Englishe ship as nere as their great shippes could come at the lowe water.1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xxi. 31 I Never did read..that ever Queen Elizabeth had any Ship-Royal, which..carried the Memorial of any particular Conquest she got.1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 116 The Church here is a mighty Queen, a ship-royal.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 50 There escaped but one Kings-ship, and one Privateer.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 357 Captain Swan had his men as much under command as if he had been in a Kings Ship.1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 45 The commander of the king's ship is obliged to make up his loss by pressing hands from the merchant ships.1824 Holt Shipping & Navig. Laws (ed. 2) Introd. 36 Foreign seamen, who shall have served in time of war three years on board a king's ship.
a. With qualifying word or phrase indicating the kind or use: king's ship n. now Historical one of the fleet of ships provided and maintained out of the royal revenue; a ship of the royal navy; later, a ship-of-war equipped at the public expense (opposed to privateer).† ship-royal n. Obsolete† great ship n. Obsolete a ship-of-war.For flag-, hospital-, ice-, line-of-battle, long, merchant, post-, private, slave-, steam-, store-, troop-, warship, etc.: see the first elements; for ship of burden, of countenance, of the line, of post, of state: see these nouns; also ship-of-war n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun]
great shipa1400
ship-of-war1479
man-of-war1484
warship1533
war-man1546
rostrum1782
U.S.S.a1912
warcraft1918
tin can1937
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel equipped at royal or public expense
king's shipa1400
ship-royala1400
1350 in A. Clarke & F. Holbrooke Rymer & Sanderson's Fœdera (1825) III. i. 195 Johannes Wille, magister navis regis vocatæ La Plente.]
b. ship in a bottle n. a model ship inside a bottle the neck of which is smaller than the ship.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > three-dimensional representation > [noun] > other models
windmill1557
paper boata1637
Nilometer1794
paper airplane1921
ship in a bottle1949
1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. xii. 128 The safes..were full of treasures..a carved nut; a ship in a bottle; [etc.].
1976 Times 2 Feb. 16/4 Construction kits are popular..including a ship-in-a-bottle outfit.
3.
a. In figurative and allusive phrases, esp. where ship typifies the fortunes or affairs of a person, etc. or the person himself in regard to them. to be in the same ship, cf. boat n.1 Phrases 3c; to give up the ship, to burn one's ships, see burn v.1 9c; when one's ship comes home (or in), when one comes into one's fortune.
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the mind > possession > wealth > rich or wealthy [phrase] > when one becomes rich
when one's ship comes home (or in)1851
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > fortune or luck
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a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 273 Thou mak my schip in blissit port arrive, That saillis heir in stormes violent.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxvij Doubting not to bring his ship to the porte desired.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 209 Those who are conversant in the same danger, are said to be in the same Ship.
1680 Deb. Parl. (1681) 117 Is not all England in danger to be lost? Let us secure the Ship, before we dispose of the Cabbins.
1816 T. Jefferson Writings (1899) X. 4 My exhortation would rather be ‘not to give up the ship’.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 19 I drove her—afar!.. From city to city, abandoned of pity, A ship without needle or star.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 175/1 One [customer] always says he'll give me a ton of taties when his ship comes home.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxvii. 248 That Mr. Ratray who has just come out of the ship, and brought a hundred thousand pounds with him.
1871 T. Hardy Desperate Remedies II. i. 39 He saw the strokes plainly, instantly resolving to burn his ships and hazard all on an advance.
1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes liii Nobody ever gives up the ship in parlour or veranda debate.
1886 D. C. Murray Cynic Fortune xii The wealthy relative..proposed to supply him with an income of a hundred pounds per annum until the major's next expected ship should come in.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 816 It is well in the case of a new patient at any rate to postpone a final diagnosis till the ship is in calmer waters.
1900 A. T. Mahan War S. Afr. v Not the courage that throws away the scabbard, much less that which burns its ships.
b. ship of fools n. [after the title of Sebastian Brant's satirical work Das Narrenschiff (1494), translated into English by Alexander Barclay as The shyp of folys of the worlde (1509)] a ship whose passengers represent various types of vice or folly.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > collectively
redelessa1300
foolish1526
coxcombry1600
Feast of Fools1601
fooliaminy1608
ship of fools1609
noodledom1810
fooldom1843
boobery1920
booboisie1921
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > immoral conduct or habits > persons representing types of vice
ship of fools1609
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B2 Any person aforesaid, longing to make a voyage in the ship of Fools.
1807 W. H. Ireland (title) Stultifera navis; qua omnium mortalium narratur stultia. The modern ship of fools.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Voyage in Enoch Arden, etc. 149 ‘A ship of fools’ he shriek'd in spite.
1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 358 He Who launched our Ship of Fools many anchors gave us.
1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 126/4 The Apocalypse as depicted by Bosch, the upside-down world of Goya, the Ship of Fools having landed its cargo.
c. ships that pass in the night n. [after the phrase by Longfellow: see quot. 1873] , used of people whose acquaintance is necessarily transitory.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [phrase] > ships that pass in the night
ships that pass in the night1873
1873 H. W. Longfellow Elizabeth in Aftermath i. 59 Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing... So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again.
1893 B. Harraden (title) Ships that pass in the night.
1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xiv. 198 The thought that they had met and parted like ships that pass in the night was very bitter to him.
1978 D. Bagley Flyaway xxv. 235 ‘Inquisitive, isn't he?’ ‘Not abnormally so. Chit-chat between ships that pass in the night.’
d. tight ship n. a ship in which ropes, etc., are tight; hence a strictly run ship; usually transferred and figurative.
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1971 ‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers i. 6 Dai liked a tight mainsheet... ‘Pull in tighter, boy... I want a tight ship.’
1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 June 42/1 The two student judges..ran a tight ship. Firm commands—‘There will be no knitting in my courtroom.’
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 May 593/3 Dr Kelly runs a tighter ship altogether than Dr Sheeran: her bibliography is a model of both inclusion and exclusion.
4. transferred. Applied to various objects that are, or are conceived to be, navigated.† a. Noah's ark.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark
arkc950
Noah's ArkOE
arche?c1225
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ship1422
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9674 Noe..in þat scip allan was in.]
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. xxxvii. 193 In Noe's ship he and his wif, har thre sonys and har wiffis sawid were.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1351 In þe shep of noee.
1526 R. Whitford tr. Martiloge 12 b Saynt Noe that made the shyppe.
b. a balloon, aircraft, or powered spacecraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > airship
ship1679
airship1817
air sailor1834
navigable1882
dirigible1885
Zeppelin1896
aeronat1903
steerable1908
Zepp1914
vessel1915
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun]
astronaut1880
spaceship1880
liner1905
space flyer1911
rocket ship1925
space vehicle1928
spacecraft1929
ship1930
spacer1942
1679 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 1. 18 (heading) A Demonstration, how it is practically possible to make a Ship, which shall be sustained by the Air, and may be moved either by Sails or Oars.
1710 Evening Post 22–25 Feb. (headline) The description of a flying ship, lately invented.
1784 Morning Herald 18 Mar. 2/3 Mr. Blanchard had..given notice of an ærial ship in which he was to take flight through the air.
1860 Brit. Patent 1598 1 An improved navigable balloon or aerostatic ship.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air v. 151 The ships of the German air-fleet rising one by one.
1928 V. Pagé Mod. Aircraft 522 Always make a landing into the wind, as this will..bring the ship to a stop quicker.
1929 B. Hall & J. J. Niles One Man's War 69 At first, I couldn't see why I couldn't have taken a ship[sc. aeroplane] up to the front and gone to making the war the very first day.
1930 Sci. Wonder Q. Spring 352 Both men ran toward the ship..for if the rocket were destroyed, they would be lost in the icy wastes of Venus.
1980 J. Cartwright Horse of Darius xvi. 251 ‘O.K. Let's get in the ship’... As soon as they were airborne, Teymour told him what had happened.
c. ship of the desert n. (also desert-ship) the camel.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun]
olfendeOE
camelc950
oont1815
ship of the desert1823
desert-ship1824
cameloid1888
humpy1934
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 138 Camels. These are the ships of Arabia, their seas are the deserts.]
1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. viii. 27 (note) The ‘ship of the desart’ is the Oriental figure for the camel or dromedary.
1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. i. 116 The..patient swiftness of the desert ship, The helmless dromedary!
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xxi. 439 Those ships of the desert, the long line of his camels.
d. ship of Guinea n. = Guinea ship n. at Guinea n. Compounds 1b.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > physalia pelagica
ship of Guinea1579
Guinea ship1855
1579 T. Stevens Let. 10 Nov. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 160 A thing swimming vpon the water like a cockes combe (which they call a ship of Guinea).
5. † c. The nave (see nave n.2) of a church. rare.
a. A vessel, utensil, ornament, etc. shaped like a ship. Also (in first quot.), the noble coined under Edward III, which bore the image of a ship.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > vessels
shipc1410
vase1629
porte-bouquet1839
garniture de cheminée1900
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > of specific shape
scallop1401
shipc1410
friar1463
columbe1488
culver1500
bell1651
cornet1677
churn1747
tulip-glass1755
situla1804
nacelle1873
thyrse1876
tsun1958
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > noble or angel
noble1350
shipc1410
Harry noble1456
angel1469
rose noble1473
angel noble1488
George noble1526
gunhole angela1577
angel piecea1665
rose royal1688
c1410 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems xvii. 29 vje shippes grete, To yeue vs han yee grauntid & behight.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos v. 22 Cymphes..ben in maner of lityl bokettis, or lytyl shippes, of a strange stone.
1525 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 271 A ship of silver for the almes disshe.
1575–6 New Yrs. Gifts in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 1 A juell of golde, being a shippe, set with a table dyamonde of fyve sparcks of dyamondes.
b. An incense boat. Now Historical.
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > incense holder > [noun]
ship1422
navet1467
incense-pan1611
naviculac1626
boat1760
incense-boat1853
nef1867
1422 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 14 Also iij sensers of siluer & gilt Also ij sheppis of seluere.
1472 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 5 A ship of silver in passel gilt without spone.
1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.iiiv Torches, tapurs, shepe, sensoures.
c1625 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 8 Two Shipps of silver, parcell gilt, for principall dayes.
1843 A. W. Pugin Apol. Revival Christian Archit. 51 b Two thuribles, with a ship for incense.
1898 J. W. Legg in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 15 132 (note) A censer with coals, a ship with incense, and a spoon.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > nave > [noun]
bodyc1390
boukc1420
middle pace1499
bulk1518
holy place1526
ship1613
bodystead1623
cella1652
nave1673
cella1676
nef1687
auditorium1728
1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 713/1 One of his Prophets made a conuocation..of all the people, in the great Shippe of the great Church.
d. Salt-making. The vessel into which the brine runs from the pits. Now Historical.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > salt making
ship1669
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment
pail1481
walling-lead1611
walma1661
Neptune1662
loot1669
ship1669
clearerc1682
cribc1682
barrow1686
hovel1686
leach-trough1686
salt-pan1708
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
scrape-pan1746
taplin1748
drab1753
room1809
thorn house1853
thorn-wall1853
fore-heater1880
pike1884
trunk1885
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1065 They fill their Panns again with new Brine out of the Ship, (so they call a great Cistern by their Panns sides, into which their Brine runs through the Woodden Gutters from the Pump, that stands in the Pitt).
1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 175.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.
1981 Times 14 July 3/2 Two hollow log ‘ships’ for boiling brine were found, dating to the sixteenth century.
e. Astronomy. The Argo Navis, a southern constellation extending between Canis major and Centaurus from the equator nearly to the pole.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Argo
ship1599
starship1606
carina1845
1599 T. Hill Schoole of Skil i. 23 The image named the Ship, hath 45. stars.
1829 P. Barlow Astron. in Encycl. Metrop.: Mixed Sci. I. 508/1 [The milky way] traverses the constellations Cassiopeia,..Canis Major, and the Ship.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 334.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > shipload or boatload
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ship1455
barge-load1609
boatload1625
ship-burden1647
canoeload1684
ship-load1707
float1776
ship-laden1857
1455–6 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 290 A shype of iryn that come yn befor Michalmas.
1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 42 When wee would be rid of one, wee vse to saye..by circumlocution..another in your steed, a shippe of Salt for you.
7. A ship's company or crew.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew
ship1338
fellowshipa1400
shipping14..
ging1585
company1591
complement1600
ship's company1644
crew1694
compliment1708
equipage1728
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 170 Do dight & mak ȝow bone, þe schip ere Sarazins alle.
1648 in S. R. Gardiner Hamilton Papers (1880) 222 The twelue schipps that haue declared for the King doeth much startill ther former inclinations.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 157 It was not the most eligible place for a ship to refresh at.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Simple attributive. = of or for, pertaining to, or concerning a ship or ships, used or fitted for use on board ship. (Cf. the compounds with ship's, Compounds 2c.)† ship-dock n. Obsolete† ship drudge n. Obsolete† ship fight n. Obsolete† ship-fighting n. Obsolete† ship-gun n. Obsolete† ship-head n. Obsolete† ship-loaf n. Obsolete† ship pitch n. Obsolete† ship pole n. Obsolete† ship-sail n. Obsolete† ship spear n. Obsolete† shipwood n. Obsolete
ship-accounts n.
ΚΠ
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. iv. 66 Ship accounts and other papers.
ship-beak n.
ΚΠ
1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia i. i. xii. 9 Those ship-beakes called in Latine Rostra.
ship-bell n.
ΚΠ
1872 H. W. Longfellow Ballad of Carmihan in Three Bks. Song i. 59 When the dismal ship-bell tolled.
ship bow n.
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 35 The ship bow or loofe.
ship-canal n.
ΚΠ
1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 268 A ship canal would be the means of importing salt, and exporting the preceding articles cheap.
1847 Niles' Reg. 13 Nov. 165/2 A ship canal wide and deep enough to float a first-rate man-of-war.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 38/1 The great ship canals of modern times have been built to carry large ocean-going vessels; but the earlier ship canals..can take only small ships and barges.
ship-captain n.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-captain, the master and commander of a merchant-vessel.
1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 195 We fell in with a ship-captain.
ship chair n.
ΚΠ
1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 356 The passengers..were resting in their ship-chairs.
ship-channel n.
ΚΠ
1775 J. Quincy Let. 31 Oct. in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 73 The ship-channel..runs between the east head of Long Island and the south point of Deer Island.
1847 Niles' Reg. 2 Oct. 70/2 To construct a ship channel, so to speak, to the St. Lawrence.
ship chaplain n.
ΚΠ
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. C3 I suspected..that the Animadverter had been some Ship-Chaplain.
ship commander n.
ΚΠ
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. vi. 68 The Planters..were certain of a Hurricane, and warned the Ship-Commanders to provide for it.
ship-crane n.
ΚΠ
1932 W. H. Auden Orators i. 16 Like those ship-cranes along Clydebank.
ΚΠ
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 398/1 Nauale, a shipdocke, which is a place where ships are builded and repaired.
1659 R. Kilburne Topogr. Kent 73 [Deptford] famous for the Shipdock, Storehouse and Corporation there for the Navy.
ΚΠ
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Shyp drudge,..Misonauta.
ΚΠ
c1000 Gl. Prud. in Germania (N.S.) XI. 389/42 Bellum classicum, scypgefæoht.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A ship-fight, een schip-vecht.
ΚΠ
1408 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (Digby 233) lf. 226/1 Schipfiȝttynge asketh to haue a loft see & nouȝt rowe see.
ship-firing n.
ΚΠ
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 286 The Ship firing is not at him.
ΚΠ
1715 London Gaz. No. 5374/2 They placed two Ship-Guns on the Bridge.
1799 Hull Advertiser 7 Sept. 4/3 The thirty two pounder ship-gun.
ΚΠ
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 14 Bracketts. Are certaine little peeces..which belong to the supporting of galleries, or ship-heads.
ship-irons n.
ΚΠ
1904 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game ii. ii A pair of handcuffs and a pair of ship-irons.
ship language n.
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ship-language, the shibboleth of nautic diction, as tau'sle, fok'sle, for topsail, forecastle.
ship law n.
ΚΠ
1849 G. Cupples Green Hand v, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 439/1 It's nouther ship-law nor shore-law..as houlds good on a bloody dazart!
ship life n.
ΚΠ
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. 162 Familiar with ship life.
ΚΠ
1485–6 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 291 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The shippe lofe which is made of clane whete as it cometh from the shefe.
ship model n.
ΚΠ
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1660 (1955) III. 260 A curious Ship modell.
ship musket n.
ΚΠ
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions 42 A Harquebuss, a Crock, or Ship-musquet.
ΚΠ
1526 Grete Herball cccxliii. sig. Tiij/1 Pytche is of dyuers sortes for there is shyppe pitche and pytche liquide or thynne, or tarre.
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. B.viiv Let Shyp Pytche Be dyssolued one whole nyghte in stronge Vyneger.
ship-plank n.
ΚΠ
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 17 As it were ship-planks caught vp from a shipwracke.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 206 Ship-Plank of two or three Inches thick.
1857 M. H. Perley Hand-bk. New Brunswick 11 For ship-planks and ship-timber.
ΚΠ
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. x. 94 The very Mariners..tooke heart to snatch vp the Ship-poles, and to make resistance.
ship-provisions n.
ΚΠ
1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος Introd. sig. [a6] He may not sail with other Ship-provisions then what is good and wholesome.
1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 47/2 A..breed of cattle..fed in Basse-Bretagne chiefly for ship-provisions.
ship-pump n.
ΚΠ
1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xxxvii. 181 The Timber is..of especial Use..for Ship-pumps.
1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 285/2 A good ship pump.
ship race n.
ΚΠ
1720 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. Observ. 1793 The Naval-Course, or Ship-Race.
ship-roll n.
ΚΠ
1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος 48 Invoyces, Bills of Lading, Ship-Roll, with other Instruments and ship-papers.
ship-room n.
ΚΠ
1698 Act 10 Will. III c. 14 §1 For building..or repairing of Stages Shiprooms Trainfats.
1780 T. Jefferson Writings (1853) I. 275 Great numbers of negroes..were left, either for the want of ship-room or through choice.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. iii. iii. 212 The contract of passengers with the master is not for mere ship-room..on board.
ship-rope n.
ΚΠ
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 167/10 Rudentes, sciprapas.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xxi. 258 [He] shut the utter-Gate, And with a Ship rope that lay by, it ties.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 48 Other Ship ropes not vsed..about the masts.
ΚΠ
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. G Since that only wind my shipsailles blew.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 263 The weaving of..Ship-sailes.
ΚΠ
1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 74 Ship spayres..iiij.
ship stern n.
ΚΠ
c1300 K. Horn (Laud) 1412 He comen out of scyp sterne.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 27 The Boat rope, is that by which the boat is towed or tyed to the ship stern.
ship tackle n.
ΚΠ
1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος 47 Embezilments of ship-tackle or furniture.
ship tackling n.
ΚΠ
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Ship-tackling, schees-koorden.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 32 Two necessary Instruments used much about the ship tacklings.
ship tailoring n.
ΚΠ
1836 E. Howard Rattlin lvi It was pronounced, for ship-tailoring, excellent.
ship-use n.
ΚΠ
1717 Petiveriana iii. 202 Ring-Oak or White-iron..is esteemed the best for Ship-use.
ΚΠ
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 370 An Oake, a Poplar, or a Pine, Hewne downe for shipwood.
b. With reference to the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon custom of burying a ship in a grave-mound.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [adjective] > with reference to burial custom
ship1847
1847 in Madden Shrines & Sepulchres (1851) I. 334 Boats, and even large ships, being drawn on shore and turned keel uppermost, the bodies of the slain deposited under them, and stones and earth superimposed, thus forming what may appropriately be termed ship barrows.
1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 196 Mighty Mounds, olden Stone-rings, Ship-settings,..Grave-cumbels.
1889 P. B. Du Chaillu Viking Age I. 335 (note) Other ship-graves, such as that of Tune, Borre, &c., have been found with skeletons of horses.
1899 H. M. Chadwick Cult of Othin 43 The ship-funeral..seems to be a distinctively Scandinavian custom.
1907 H. M. Chadwick Origin Eng. Nation xi. 288 The launching of the funeral ship really was an ancient custom..from which both ship-cremation (on land) and ship-burial were derived.
1940 Burlington Mag. Dec. 174/1 The great Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo..was excavated in the summer of 1939.
1963 C. Green Sutton Hoo ii. 33 (heading) The ship-barrow excavation.
c. Objective and objective genitive.† ship-swallower n. Obsolete
ship-bearing adj.
ΚΠ
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvii. 312 Washt with the once ship-bearing Ley.
ship-clearer n.
ΚΠ
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 255 Brokers and Ship-clearers, who would have Goods insured.
ship-destroying adj.
ΚΠ
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions Index E j b A ship-destroying Engine.
ship-handling n.
ΚΠ
1907 F. T. Bullen Advance Austral. xix It was a fine piece of ship-handling.
ship-jumper n.
ΚΠ
1964 Punch 4 Mar. 336/3 Except for a few ship-jumpers, most come by air.
ship-jumping adj.
ΚΠ
1959 P. McCutchan Storm South xv. 213 Genuine cases of ship-jumping by men who had had enough of sail.
ship-launch n.
ΚΠ
1832 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada (1836) iv. 52 At Brockville we arrived..in time to enjoy..a ship-launch.
ship-maker n.
ΚΠ
1483 Cath. Angl. 337/1 A Schyppe maker, barcarius.
ship modeller n.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-modeller,..one who lays down the proposed lines of a vessel.
ship painter n.
ΚΠ
1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 57 Simon de Vlieger, an admired ship-painter.
ship rigger n.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 253 James Brown, ship-rigger.
ship scuttling n.
ΚΠ
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker Prol. 8 A certain laxity of moral tone..prevails..on smuggling, ship-scuttling, barratry, piracy.
ship-sinking adj.
ΚΠ
1655 R. Davenport King Iohn & Matilda v. sig. K From mine eyes, ship-sincking Cataracts, Whold [sic] clouds of waters,..Shall fall into the Sea of my affliction.
ship surveyor n.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-surveyor, an examiner of the condition, fittings, and sea-worthiness of ships.
ship swabber n.
ΚΠ
1806 ‘P. Pindar’ Tristia 97 Ship-brokers, or ship-breakers, or ship-swabbers.
ΚΠ
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 86 A most dreadfull gulfe, and shippe swalower.
d.
(a) Adverbial, esp. instrumental.
ship-based adj.
ΚΠ
1973 J. D. R. Rawlings Pictorial Hist. Fleet Air Arm vi. 69 The Navy..could see a use for the helicopter as a ship-based submarine spotter.
ship-beset adj.
ΚΠ
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 95 A yellow strand and ship-beset green sea.
ship-borne adj.
ΚΠ
1832 W. Motherwell Poems 13 The ship-borne warriors of the North.
1932 19th Cent. Feb. 206 The second [method] is the limitation by agreement of numbers of ship-borne aircraft.
1978 Navy News May 5/2 The Phoebe..came out of her two-and-a-half year refit with..shipborne torpedoes fitted.
ship-dotted adj.
ΚΠ
1889 J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 216 The far-reaching, ship-dotted sea beyond.
ship-forsaken adj.
ΚΠ
1735 J. Thomson Antient & Mod. Italy Compared: 1st Pt. Liberty 282 The Ship-forsaken Bay.
ship-laden adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > shipload or boatload
shipfulc1275
ship1455
barge-load1609
boatload1625
ship-burden1647
canoeload1684
ship-load1707
float1776
ship-laden1857
1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 6 The yellow, rushing, ship-laden river.
(b) Similative.
ship-fashion adj.
ΚΠ
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 585/1 Pinks sail with three masts, ship-fashion.
1831 W. Scott Kenilworth (rev. ed.) xv, in Waverley Novels XXIII. 226 The chief table was adorned by a salt, ship-fashion, made of mother-of-pearl.
ship-like adj.
ΚΠ
1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 239 The shiplike clouds, which overwhelm The azure sky.
1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xxiv. 32 With a steady will unswerving, Ship-like may we onward press.
1864 Á. Vámbéry Trav. Central Asia 198 The camels, the shiplike movements of which I had formerly so much dreaded.
C2.
a. Special combinations:† ship-agent n. Obsolete a shipping agent.† ship-bearer n. Obsolete one who carries an incense-boat.† ship-beer n. [compare Middle Dutch schipbier, German schiffsbier] Obsolete beer made for consumption on board ship.† ship-bridge n. Obsolete a pontoon bridge.† ship-burden n. Obsolete a ship-load.† ship-chest n. Obsolete† ship-coffer n. Obsolete a chest used on board ship.† ship-fare n. Obsolete (a) travelling by ship; (b) = ship-hire n.† ship-ferd n. Obsolete a navy. † ship-fountain n. Obsolete (see quot. 1626).† ship-freight n. Obsolete (see fraught n. 1, freight n. 1) = ship-hire n.† ship-governor n. Obsolete = shipmaster n.† ship-gume n. Obsolete = shipman n.† ship-hire n. [compare Middle Dutch schiphure] Obsolete the passage money for a sea-voyage. † ship-hook n. Obsolete ? a grappling iron.† ship-lord n. Obsolete = ship-owner n.† ship news n. Obsolete (a) news conveyed by ship; (b) shipping news. † ship-privateer n. Obsolete a privateer commanded by a captain (cf. ship sloop n.).† ship-rae n. [see rae n. and compare Middle Dutch schipra] Scottish Obsolete a sailyard.† ship-rede n. [see reid n.] Scottish Obsolete a roadstead.† ship ren n. Obsolete a ship's course.† ship-road n. Obsolete (a) a sea-voyage; (b) a roadstead.† ship-scot n. Obsolete = ship-money n.† ship sloop n. Obsolete a sloop of war commanded by a captain, and therefore having the rating of a ship. † ship-tire n. Obsolete a head-dress shaped like a ship or having a ship-like ornament.† ship toll n. (also ship's toll) Obsolete passage money, fare for a voyage.† ship-war n. Obsolete naval warfare.† ship-writ n. Obsolete a writ for ship-money.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships
husband1674
ship-agent1813
ship-broker1816
shipping-agent1843
shipping-broker1861
1813 Examiner 8 Feb. 86/1 O. R. Read and Co...ship-agents.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > person in minor orders > acolyte > [noun] > bearing incense
ship-bearer?c1450
boat-bearer1839
boat-boy1902
?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 337 In festys clepyd Maius duplex ther schal be two sensours at euensonge and matyns, and a schypberer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer
spruce beerc1500
March beer1535
Lubecks beer1608
zythum1608
household beer1616
bottle1622
mumc1623
old beer1626
six1631
four1633
maize beer1663
mum beer1667
vinegar beer1677
wrest-beer1689
nog1693
October1705
October beer1707
ship-beer1707
butt beer1730
starting beer1735
butt1743
peterman1767
seamen's beer1795
chang1800
treacle beer1806
stock beer1826
Iceland beer1828
East India pale ale1835
India pale ale1837
faro1847
she-oak1848
Bass1849
bitter beer1850
bock1856
treble X1856
Burton1861
nettle beer1864
honey beer1867
pivo1873
Lambic1889
steam beer1898
barley-beer1901
gueuze1926
Kriek1936
best1938
rough1946
keg1949
IPA1953
busaa1967
mbege1972
microbrew1985
microbeer1986
yeast-beer-
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 85 If ever he [sc. a sea-cook] prays, it's in a Morning fasting, and that is to some Tag-rag, to fetch him a little Ship-Beer.
ship bread n. (also ship's bread) = ship's biscuit n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > ship's biscuit
ship bread1598
bread1625
ship's biscuit1634
pilot bread1788
midshipman's nuts1828
hardtack1830
pilot biscuit1836
pantile1874
Liverpool pantile1899
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pane biscotto, bisket bread, shipbread.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 310 No ship's bread was expended.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvi. 169 The ship-bread was powdered by beating it with a capstan-bar.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > bridge > constructed of boats, rafts, or pontoons
pontoon1590
ship-bridge1663
flying bridge1675
float-bridge1692
pont volant1710
raft bridge1733
pontoon bridge1757
raft1761
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > floating bridge
bridge of boatsa1387
pontoon1590
boat bridge1598
ship-bridge1663
flying bridge1675
float-bridge1692
floating bridge1706
raft bridge1733
pontoon bridge1757
raft1761
1663 Brief Acc. Turks Late Exped. 11 The River had torn their Ship-bridges.
ship-broker n. a mercantile agent who transacts the business of a ship when it is in port, or is engaged in buying and selling ships, or in procuring insurance on them.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships
husband1674
ship-agent1813
ship-broker1816
shipping-agent1843
shipping-broker1861
1816 Sporting Mag. 47 254 Mr. Wild, a ship broker in the City.
1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 188 A ship broker is not within the various acts for the regulation and admission of brokers.
ship-brokerage n. the business performed by a ship-broker.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > brokerage > [noun] > types of
job-broking1701
fogging1869
ship-brokerage1886
ship-broking1955
yacht brokerage1974
1886 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. (Cass.) The question of ship-brokerage in France had formed the subject of frequent representations to the French government.
ship-broking n. = ship-brokerage n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > brokerage > [noun] > types of
job-broking1701
fogging1869
ship-brokerage1886
ship-broking1955
yacht brokerage1974
1955 Times 29 June 14/5 Our shipbroking department had an active 12 months and profited during the latter part of the year from the substantial rise in tramp freights.
1969 Daily Tel. 24 Jan. 5/3 Wigham-Richardson is largely concerned with marine insurance, shipbroking and chartering.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > shipload or boatload
shipfulc1275
ship1455
barge-load1609
boatload1625
ship-burden1647
canoeload1684
ship-load1707
float1776
ship-laden1857
1647 J. Hall Poems 18 Wee'l weigh thee by Ship-burdens not by'th'stone.
ship-carver n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-carver, one who carves figure-heads, and the work on the stern.
ship-caulker n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-caulker, one whose business it is to stop, with oakum and pitch, the seams of ships' sides and decks.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > chest used on board ship
ship-chest1494
ship-coffer1557
sea chest1669
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest > used on ship
ship-chest1494
ship-coffer1557
1494 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 322 I bequeith to my cousyn William Hill my best bras pott a ship chest and ij mesers of Ode.
1529 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 178 A schip kist 20d.
1534 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1868) 7 285 j olde shyppe cheste without locke.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > chest used on board ship
ship-chest1494
ship-coffer1557
sea chest1669
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest > used on ship
ship-chest1494
ship-coffer1557
1557 Will W. Drurye in J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23 (1784) 126 One great shipp cofer.
ship's company n. (also ship company) the crew of a ship.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew
ship1338
fellowshipa1400
shipping14..
ging1585
company1591
complement1600
ship's company1644
crew1694
compliment1708
equipage1728
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 2 When Ships meet,..they use to demand how they doe all fore and aft, the reason whereof is, for that the whole Ships company is devided.
1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος App. 174 In the sight and presence of the Ship-Company.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 56 To purchase Wine abroad for the Service of the Ship's Company.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. i. 18 The ship's company were mustered.
1891Ship's company [see ship's writer n. at Compounds 2c]. 1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 13/5 Shore-based organisations..will be involved..as well as 25 to 35 members of the ship's company.
ship-contractor n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ship-contractor, the charterer or freighter of a vessel.
ship decanter n. (also ship's decanter) a decanter with a base of greater width than the shoulder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > decanter
decanter1712
imperial1858
ship decanter1929
Rodney1986
1929 W. A. Thorpe Hist. Eng. & Irish Glass II. Pl. cxxix. (caption) Ship's decanter, four angular rings round the neck.
1976 J. Carroll Madonna Red (1977) iii. 93 The ambassador was holding a crystal ship's decanter.
1979 P. Alexander Show me Hero vii. 90 A ship decanter and two wine glasses.
ship-deliverer n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-deliverer, a person who contracts to unload a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > by ship
sailinga900
ship-farec1330
maiden voyage1823
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by ship
ship tollc1050
ship-hirea1400
ship-fraughtc1480
ship-freight1552
ship-fare1648
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 926 Bliþe was his bosking, And fair was his schip fare.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 692 Ankyrs rapys..And all that nedyt to schipfar.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 686 Till our-saile thaim in-to schipfair.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Schip-laon, ship-hire, Ship-fraught, or Ship-fare.
1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος App. 176 The Master..ought to shew them [the company] their Ship-fare, which he may weigh out to each of them.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun]
fleeta1000
floteOE
ship-ferda1122
navya1382
armyc1475
armada1533
class1596
naval1627
armadilla1685
Grand Fleet1696
armament1698
maritime power1711
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 999 Þæt man sceolde mid scipfyrde & eac mid landfyrde him ongean faran.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1078 Humber king & al his fleote & his muchele scip-ferde.
ship-fever n. a form of typhus fever, called also gaol fever and hospital fever.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid
putrid fever1597
pestilential fever1617
tabardillo1624
synochus1625
Hungaric fever1661
typhus1664
military fever1736
jail distemper1745
hospital fever1750
jail-fever1754
ship-fever1758
typhus fever1780
typhoid fever1789
gastric fever1802
dothinenteritis1826
enteric fever1833
typhoid1837
pythogenic fever1858
thanatotyphus1860
typh fever1861
enteric1872
famine-fever1876
Red River fever1878
laryngo-typhus1888
laryngo-typhoid1896
typh fever1900
paratyphoid1904
1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 49 One man labouring under what is called the Ship Fever, or the Goal Distemper.
1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 721/1 Fleeing in despair, emigrants carried the germs of disease with them; and the so-called ship-fever which followed destroyed its thousands.
ship float n. (a) a lighter; (b) the splashers of a paddle-wheel (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > desalination or softening of water > [noun] > apparatus or chemical
ship-fountain1626
water softener1867
softening works1877
1626 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 355/2 Instrumentum quo aqua salsa dulcis effecta est, quod πηγοναυτικον vulgo schip-fontane appellatum est.
ship-fraught n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by ship
ship tollc1050
ship-hirea1400
ship-fraughtc1480
ship-freight1552
ship-fare1648
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt l. 482 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 310 Sad he: ‘ȝa, gyf þou has macht to pay þame þi schip fraucht.’ ‘frawcht haf I nane, bruthyr der.’
1648 [see ship-fare n.]. ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by ship
ship tollc1050
ship-hirea1400
ship-fraughtc1480
ship-freight1552
ship-fare1648
1552Ship freight [see ship-hire n.].
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master
skipper1390
master shipmana1393
master mariner?a1400
shipmanc1405
shipmasterc1440
commanderc1450
patron1490
shipper1496
ship-governor1526
reis1585
nakhoda?1606
sea-captain1612
malem1615
manjee1683
captain1705
patroon1719
old man1821
owner1903
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. xviii. 17 Every shippe governer, and all they that occupied shippes.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2276 Godlac sloh þa scip-gumen [c1300 Otho sipmen].
ship-hearth n. (see quot. 1858).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > stove, fireplace, or fire
fire hearth1676
fagong1772
galley-fire1836
galley1853
ship-hearth1858
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > stove > types of stove
bath-stove1591
pech1591
stewpot1688
kitchen range1733
cockle1775
copper-hole1785
Franklin stove1787
kitchen stove1795
gas stove1818
calefactor1831
thermometer-stove1838
Vesta1843
airtight1844
ship-hearth1858
base-burner1861
wood-stove1875
box1878
tortoise1884
wood-burner1901
Quebec heater1903
pot belly1920
cosy stove1926–7
oil stove1934
paraffin stove1995
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-hearth Maker, a manufacturer of the cooking galleys or stoves used on shipboard.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by ship
ship tollc1050
ship-hirea1400
ship-fraughtc1480
ship-freight1552
ship-fare1648
a1400 Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 57 265 For his schip huyre his wyf he heolde.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 446/2 Schyphyre, naulum.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ship hire or freight, naulum.
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ship-holder n. = ship-owner n. (Webster 1828–32).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > grappling-hook
grappling-hook1622
ship-hooka1643
a1643 J. Burroughs Sovereignty Brit. Seas (1651) 114 With certaine ship~hookes and other like Instruments [etc.].
ship-joiner n. (see quot. 1858).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > joiner > types of
ship-joiner1858
setter-out1892
deal-worker-
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship-joiner,.. a mechanic who does the neat or fine woodwork in ships and buildings, and is therefore distinguished from the shipwright and carpenter.
1897 Daily News 29 Mar. 7/3 The strike of the ship joiners of the River Thames.
ship-keeper n. a man who takes care of a ship when the crew is absent from it.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > caretaker of ship
ship-keeperc1517
c1517 in Archaeologia 47 310 Wages of Shippekepers in the Thames.
1618 in J. Charnock Hist. Mar. Arch. (1801) II. 237 The rigging at the setting forth may bee performed by the ordinary shipp~keepers.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxvi. 459 Not a soul was left on board the good ship Alert, but the old ship~keeper.
ship-ladder n. a ladder used in boarding or leaving a ship; also, a kind of embroidery stitch.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ladder or gang-plank
ship-ladderc1050
fall-bridge1487
way-shide1535
gallery ladder1706
side ladder1724
gangboard1769
gangway ladder1778
gangplank1785
stern-ladder1794
race board1808
gangway1846
brow1867
boarding-bridge1878
passerelle1989
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 182/10 Ponsis, sciphlædder.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Transpontin, a ship-ladder.
1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 187 To work Jacob or Ship Ladder.
ship-lap n. (a) a form of joint in carpentry made by halving (see quots. and halving n. 2, and cf. half-lap at lap n.3 2b); (b) boards interlocked by rebates, used esp. for cladding.
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 226 Ship-lap, a carpenter's term for a mode of uniting the end of one piece of wood to the side of another, at right angles, by a bevil-shaped bearing on the upper edge.
1939 W. Faulkner Wild Palms 15 The flimsy walls (they were not even tongue-and-groove..but were of ship-lap).
1977 Cornish Times 19 Aug. 13/2 (advt.) Our..plumbing, shiplap claddings and drainage systems are always in stock.
ship-lap v. to furnish with joints of this kind.
ΚΠ
1887 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Mar. 432 It [our home] is ‘ship-lapped’ and partially plastered.
ship-lapped adj.
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1958 Archit. Rev. 123 327 (caption) Northern elevation with ship-lapped pine used as facing for the first floor.
ship-lapping n.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 278/1 The simplest joint is that known as ship-lapping, in which each end is cut down through half its thickness, and the cut met by a cross-cut, and the piece removed.
1882 W. J. Christy Pract. Treat. Joints 103 Ship Lapping Joint.
ship-letter n. a letter carried by a private vessel and not by the ordinary mailboat.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letters, etc., by method of dispatch or conveyance
post-letter1648
ship-letterc1675
by-letter1685
penny-post letter1686
way letter1710
by-night1766
cross-letter1789
twopenny1818
box letter1827
non-paid1829
balloon-letter1870
pigeongram1875
railway letter1891
pneumatogram1894
airmail1918
aerogram1919
airgram1919
air letter1920
pneumatique1924
pneu1926
snail mail1929
aerogramme1934
airgraph1941
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ship letter to hyre, nauicularius.
c1675 in J. W. Hyde Post in Grant (1894) 326 Ship letter.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 963 A letter..with the English ship-letter post-mark.
1829 Parl. Papers XI. 288 Ship-letter office.
1834 Parl. Papers XLIX. 501 Above 1200 ship-letter mails are forwarded via Liverpool in the course of a year.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand xiii. 161/2 My mother handed Jane a ship-letter.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship-owning > [noun] > ship-owner
ship-lordc1050
ship-owner1530
planter1663
ship-holder1828
employ1840
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 181/21 Nauclerus, sciphlaford.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 447/1 Schyplord,..navarchus.
ship-mark n. a postmark on a letter carried by a mail ship.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postmarking > postmark > types of
ship-mark1801
Maltese cross1881
surcharge1881
1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 456 The letter had no ship-mark: I examined that of the post; it was from Hull.
ship-mate n. one who serves with another in the same ship; also in to be ship-mates with, to sail in the same vessel with; hence transferred, to be acquainted with, to have knowledge of (colloquial).
ΚΠ
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iii. 329 Our Commander and Shipmates.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 106 A handsome, hearty fellow, and a good shipmate.
1876 W. Lamont Yachting in Arctic Seas 13 These six Tromsönians were, in seagoing phrase, the hardest bargains I was ever shipmates with.
1880 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. ii. 60 I had never been shipmates with an island of this kind before.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. ii. 13 ‘You know an old shipmate, Bill, surely,’ said the stranger.
1961 G. Foulser Seaman's Voice i. 13 I was never shipmates with a boom mainsail.
shipmatish adj.
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1893 W. C. Russell Emigrant Ship II. 84 ‘I respect your shipmatish views’, said I.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > news brought by ship
ship news1712
society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > item > news item > others
ship news1712
splash1810
local1854
spot news1893
1712 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 723 This being only ship news, little credit is given theretoo.
1761 London Chron. July 2–4, 14/2 Ship News. Falmouth, June 29. Wind N. arrived the King George packet-boat, Bown, from Lisbon.
ship-papers n. (now usually ship's papers) the documents (passport, muster-roll, charter-party, log-book, etc.) with which a ship is required by law to be provided.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun]
papers1651
ship-papers1661
shipping-papers1840
1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος Introd. a 6 He may not carry counterfeit Cocquets or other Fictitious and Colourable Ship-papers to involve the Goods of the Innocent with the Nocent.
1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 126/2 The ship-papers and depositions.
1853 Maude & Pollock Law Merch. Shipping iii. 63 The master is the proper person to have the custody of the ship's papers.
ship-pendulum n. a pendulum with a graduated arc, used in the navy to ascertain the ‘heel’ of a vessel (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
ship plane n. an aeroplane specially adapted for operating from an aircraft carrier.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > which can operate from aircraft carrier
ship plane1919
deck-lander1928
1919 in C. G. Grey All World's Aircraft i. 96 a The Beardmore W.B. III. was evolved from the Sopwith ‘Pup’ in an effort to turn this machine into a ship-plane.
1922 Flight 14 126/2 Landplanes designed so as to facilitate their landing on a ship's deck will ordinarily be known as Ship Planes.
1942 Ark Royal Aug. 13/2 A ship-plane represents certain constructional problems which entail a sacrifice of speed.
ship-plate n. an inferior grade of wrought iron plate.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron
landiron1428
wood-iron1536
bullate1591
bullet-iron1686
tough-iron1686
Russia iron1751
Russian iron1758
sable1785
Russia1805
stub-iron1820
bushel-iron1831
Russia sheet-iron1835
stub-nail iron1839
stub Damascus1845
Berlin iron1854
charcoal-iron1858
Bessemer iron1864
tank-iron1864
ship-plate1873
ingot iron1877
tank-plate1892
structural1895
Armco1914
1873 R. Wilson Steam Boilers 32 The badly refined, coarse, brittle and uncertain material sometimes sold as ship plate.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 93 Ship Plate Maker.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > privateer or pirate ship > [noun] > privateer
Dunkirker1588
Dunkirk1599
she-Dunkirk1623
Dunker1630
privateer?1641
private man of war1646
caper1657
letter(s) of mart ship1695
caperera1698
letter of marque ship1703
letter(s) of mart man1704
letter of marque1768
shaving-mill1781
ship-privateer1799
sea-wolf1884
1799 Naval Chron. 1 529 A ship privateer named La Zele, mounting 16 guns and 69 men.
1805 Ld. Nelson Let. 23 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 486 A Ship-Privateer of twenty-two Guns.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard
sailyardc725
rae1312
betasc1330
yard1465
mast-yard?1536
ship-rae1595
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Antenna, a ship rae.
ship-railway n. (a) an inclined railway running into the water over which a ship may be drawn out on land for repairs, etc.; (b) a railway for transporting ships overland.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > for transporting ships
ship-railway1881
1881 Chicago Times 12 Mar. The Times does not undertake to say that the ship-railway scheme is impracticable.
1891 19th Cent. Mar. 386 No ship railway is at present in operation.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > roadstead
raid1294
roadc1330
roadstead1351
reid1561
ship-rede1596
ship-road1610
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action, fact, or opportunity of anchoring > place of anchorage > roadstead
raid1294
roadc1330
roadstead1351
reid1561
ship-rede1596
ship-road1610
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 127 Quha is ouir Haevinis and schipredes thay cal Admiral.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > course
ship ren1297
course1553
route?1568
voyage1581
caping1595
wakec1595
run1688
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 341 So þat toward þe west þe ssiprene [v.r. schipreone] drou.
ship-rigged adj. carrying square sails on all three masts.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways
lateen1540
high-riggeda1547
tall1548
well-rigged1577
under-sailed1599
over-rigged1627
schooner-rigged1769
sloop-rigged1769
ketch-rigged1775
spritsail1791
brig-rigged1796
square-rigged1802
ship-rigged1803
taunt-rigged1825
Bermudian-rigged1846
Bermudian1847
maphrodite1849
bark-rigged1858
butter-rigged1881
jackass rigged1883
1803 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Records) (1941) III. 46 She is Ship rigged and taunt masted.
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 189/2 The vessel was ship-rigged.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > a voyage
farec1000
voyagec1310
ship-roada1400
shipping1483
race1513
navigationa1527
sailing1535
sea-fare1601
sea-voyage1612
saila1616
perfretation1656
watery1697
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > roadstead
raid1294
roadc1330
roadstead1351
reid1561
ship-rede1596
ship-road1610
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action, fact, or opportunity of anchoring > place of anchorage > roadstead
raid1294
roadc1330
roadstead1351
reid1561
ship-rede1596
ship-road1610
a1400 New Test. (Paues) Acts xxvii. 10 I see þat wiþ iniurye ande myche harme..bigynnes oure schiprode to be.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 422 To assume unto it the name of a ship-Rode, or Haven.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > military exactions > [noun]
coynye1449
scutagec1460
spear silver1496
conduct-money1512
coat-money1557
bonaght1568
cessc1571
cosheringc1571
cessheryc1575
quartering-money1580
sessa1581
coshery1587
coatc1630
ship-money1636
shipping-money1640
ship-scot1640
conduct1644
trophy money1664
trophy tax1701
watch-mail1710
Saladine tax1728
1640 H. Parker Case Shipmony 2 To introduce the legality of the Ship-scot, such a prerogative hath been maintained, as destroyes all other Law.
1643 Oath of Pacification 8 The Kingdome groaned..under the oppression of the Shipscot.
ship-scraper n. (a) see quot. a1884; (b) one whose occupation it is to scrape the keels and decks of ships; an instrument used for this purpose.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > [noun]
scrapec1440
scraper1691
spittle1835
ship-scrapera1884
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > [noun] > cleaning ship's bottom > one who
ship-scrapera1884
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 805/2 Ship Scraper, a triangular or square piece of steel, handled, and with sharpened edges for scraping the keels and decks of vessels.
1890 Daily News 12 June 6/1 The United Shipscrapers' Protection League.
shipside n. (a) spec. the outside of the hull of a ship; (b) the dock adjacent to a moored ship.
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1439 in Archaeologia (1827) 21 37 Men of arms feyghtyng upon the shippe syde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 106 I would you had beene by the ship side, to haue help'd her.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 13 Near the Ship Side.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. x. 174 I cast him adown by the ship-side.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Mar. 26/3 He parked his car in a garage, left orders with an automobile company to have a new machine at shipside [etc.].
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 83/3 General cargo facilities..have two shipside tracks.
1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats 93 Most sports fishermen therefore incorporate a section of the cockpit coamings, shipside, or transom which can be removed to help loading.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > sloop > commanded by a captain
ship sloop1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ship-sloop, commanders were appointed to 24-gun sloops, but when the same sloops were commanded by captains, they were rated ships.
ship smith n. (also ship's smith) (see quot. 1858).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > boat-builder or shipbuilder > [noun] > in specific trade or type of work
clincher1495
ship-carpenter1495
clinger1538
clencher1559
clinker1656
converter1811
square-maker1850
ship smith1858
red leader1882
chippy chap1903
stager1927
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship's-smith, an iron worker who fits the metal work, bolts, &c. in ships.
1897 Daily News 19 Feb. 2/2 All the shipsmiths on the north-east coast.
ship-spy n. a telescope used on the coast (Halliwell 1847).
ship stores n. (also ship's stores) (a) provisions and supplies for use on board ship; (b) singular (U.S.) a shop on board ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > supplies provisions
small storesa1643
ship stores1785
naval stores1896
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > shop on board ship
ship stores1943
1785 Daily Universal Reg. 1 Jan. 4/3 Sundry ships stores, consisting of sails, cables, anchors.
1798 28th Rep. Sel. Comm. Finance (1803) XIII. 356 Draught Carts for conveying old Ship's Stores.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 517 Disposing of a great quantity of ship stores, claret, preserved meats, and great casks packed with soda-water.
1943 U.S. Navy Bluejacket's Man. (ed. 11) 1143 The ship's store, perhaps better known as the ‘Canteen’, is also under the jurisdiction of the supply officer.
1969 A. R. Bosworth My Love Affair with Navy ii. 44 He had been to the ship's store, and he came into the ward with several candy bars.
ship-stuff n. (a) inferior wheat flour; (b) material for the woodwork of a ship.
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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > inferior flour
garnela1752
ship-stuff1793
batch-flour1862
stub-tail1867
red dog1880
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > [noun] > material of
ship-stuff1793
1793 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 382 The middlings and ship stuff may be sold to answer the money calls which you will have upon you.
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 511 Saw oak for shipstuff.
ship time n. (also ship's time) (a) the local mean time of the meridian where the ship is; (b) Canadian local, (the time of) the arrival of an annual supply ship.
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1771 A. Graham Observ. Hudson's Bay (1969) ix. 282 How affairs went on last shiptime I know not.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad v. 47 Young Mr. Blucher..was a good deal worried by the constantly changing ‘ship-time’.
1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 303 Ship Time, the solar time at the place of the ship—12 o'clock (noon) being made known by eight bells when the sun crosses the meridian.
1956 Beaver Winter 52/1 Time to plan the spring work—but why do that; shiptime is far away and now is really the time for that rest.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other
dorlot1340
horn1340
vitremytec1386
templesc1430
bycocket1464
burlet1490
knapscall1498
shapion1504
shaffron1511
paste1527
attire1530
faille1530
muzzle1542
corneta1547
abacot1548
wase1548
wrapper1548
tiring1552
basket1555
bilimenta1556
Paris head1561
shadow1578
head-roll1583
mitre1585
whitehead1588
crispa1592
ship-tire1602
oreillet1603
scoffion1604
coif1617
aigrette1631
egreta1645
drail1647
topknotc1686
slop1688
Burgundy1701
bandore1708
fly-cap1753
capriole1756
lappet-head1761
fly1773
turban1776
pouf1788
knapscapa1802
chip1804
toque1817
bonnet1837
casquette1840
war bonnet1845
taj1851
pugree1859
kennel1896
roach1910
Deely bobber1982
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. iii. 52 The arched bent of thy brow Would become the ship tire..Or anie Venetian attire.
ship-to-air n. used attributively to designate a missile fired from a ship at an aerial target.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [adjective] > other attributes
proximity-fused1945
surface-to-air1950
surface-to-surface1951
heat-seeking1956
ship-to-air1957
targetable1968
silo-busting1970
1957 Times Surv. Brit. Aviation Sept. 2/4 A ship-to-air weapon.
1972 Times 29 Sept. 4/8 The through-deck carriers will carry..the ship-to-air missile, Sea Dart.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by ship
ship tollc1050
ship-hirea1400
ship-fraughtc1480
ship-freight1552
ship-fare1648
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 182/13 Naulum, sciptol.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 805/4 Hoc naulum, a schyppes tolle.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Schip-tol, ship-toll, or Custome.
ship-to-ship n. used attributively to designate communications, missiles, etc., directed from one ship to another.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > types of link or network
ship-to-ship1904
two-way1922
ship-to-shore1923
multichannel1930
multipath1936
multi-channelled1950
store-and-forward1963
terrestrial1968
ISDN1974
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [adjective] > missiles discharged from ship
ship-to-ship1904
ship-to-shore1923
1904 H. W. Wilson in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VIII. xv. 482 The battle of Camperdown..was not, as had been planned, a mere ship-to-ship encounter.
1944 Proc. IRE 32 326/2 Ship-to-ship telephone communication.
1977 Navy News Aug. 19 (caption) H.M.S. Fife, one of four guided missile destroyers in Portsmouth Navy Days, with her new Exocet ship-to-ship missiles mounted just below her bridge.
ship-to-shore n. used attributively to designate communications, missiles, etc., directed from a ship to land; also elliptical as n., a radio-telephone operating in this manner.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > types of link or network
ship-to-ship1904
two-way1922
ship-to-shore1923
multichannel1930
multipath1936
multi-channelled1950
store-and-forward1963
terrestrial1968
ISDN1974
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [adjective] > missiles discharged from ship
ship-to-ship1904
ship-to-shore1923
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of > radio-telephone
wireless telephone1894
radio-telephone1907
radiophone1919
ship-to-shore1923
RT1941
mobile unit1952
1923 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 51 5/1 The cost of radio ship-to-shore tolls.
1962 K. C. Hutchin How not to kill your Husband xlvii. 221 The worst invention of recent years connected with sailing is ‘ship-to-shore’ radio~telephone.
1971 N. Freeling Over High Side iii. 197 We've got the ship-to-shore. Couldn't we phone someone?
1977 B. Garfield Recoil xiv. 148 ‘Why the hell don't you ever turn on your ship-to-shore?’..‘I go on this boat to get away from telephones.’
1979 Daily Tel. 22 Sept. 36/3 Makers of ship-to-shore oil pipes.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun]
ship-war1408
ocean-war1805
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > sea war
ship-war1408
sea war1727
ocean-war1805
1408 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (Digby 233) lf. 223/2 Þe lawes or hestes of schep werre.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 447/1 Schyppe werre, naumachia.
shipway n. (a) a way or bed on which ships are built or laid for examination; (b) a ship-canal.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired
launch1711
slip1769
shipway1840
building-slip1846
slippery path1846
the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal
channel1579
canal1597
cut river1677
navigation1720
shipway1840
canalette1869
klong1898
1840 Hull Docks Comm. 189 Shipways, a platform of stone-work in the bed of the river, for the purpose of laying the ships on to examine their bottoms.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 343 (note) Constructing buildings for the accommodation of officers of the yards, in storehouses,..and shipways.
1884 Manch. Examiner 15 Aug. 4/8 The construction of a ship-way from Manchester to the sea.
ship-work n. work at a ship or on board ship; ship-building, naval construction.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun]
ship-work1408
boat work1835
yacht-building1868
1408–9 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (Digby 233) lf. 224/1 To hewe tymbre as grete bemes for schip werk.
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 283 He gaif to Schir Alexander Makison, to furnis the schip werk, xx li.
1616 in Compt bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) 280 12 peaceis oak for ship wark.
1904 Daily Chron. 9 June 3/4 He might be able to write a good text~book on ship-work.
ship-worker n. one who employs labourers to unload ships.
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society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun] > other specific employers
piecemaster1747
nooi1850
ship-worker?1881
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 36 Dock Service:..Shipworker.
1891 Daily News 9 Feb. 3/2 The shipworkers and quay foremen.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > other types of writ
utrumc1290
quo warrantoa1325
writ of right closea1325
writ of oyer and terminer1414
writ of right1414
quare impedit?a1424
prohibition?1435
praecipec1440
supplicavita1450
replevy1451
ouster-le-main1485
praecipe in capitec1523
value1527
inhibition1532
rehabilitation1533
melius inquirendum1549
ne exeat regnum1559
quo minus1592
letters (or writ) of supplementc1600
inhibition1603
fair pleading1607
ingressu1607
ne exeat regno1607
account1622
associationa1625
ship-writ1640
cessavit1641
ne exeat1644
devastavit1651
right close1651
writ of second deliverance1652
fair pleader1655
beaupleader1700
proclamation writ1713
writ of inquiry1809
writ of intendence and respondence1881
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > military exactions > [noun] > writ for ship-money
ship-writa1754
1640 Act 16 Chas. I c. 14 §1 Diverse Writs..commonly called Shipwrits for the charging of the Ports Townes..of this Realme respectively to provide and furnish certain Ships for his Majesties Service.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 140 The Ship~writs having been issued out August the 11. 1635.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 253 The council who had..just before the relation issued ship-writs to the inland.
b. In the names of animals: † ship-halter n. Obsolete the sucking-fish = remora n. 1.† ship-nut n. Obsolete (see quot. 1704).
ship-borer n. = ship-worm n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Echeneidae (remoras) > member of (remora)
echeneis1481
remora1533
stay-ship1567
suck-stone1602
stop-ship1605
sea-lamprey1616
ship-halter1668
sucking-fish1697
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
shark-sucker1850
ship-holder1860
fisher-fish1867
sucker-fish1867
sea-lampern-
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 125 Remora..the Remora, or Ship-halter.
ship-holder n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Echeneidae (remoras) > member of (remora)
echeneis1481
remora1533
stay-ship1567
suck-stone1602
stop-ship1605
sea-lamprey1616
ship-halter1668
sucking-fish1697
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
shark-sucker1850
ship-holder1860
fisher-fish1867
sucker-fish1867
sea-lampern-
1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea v. 111 Many fabulous stories have been told of the small ‘Ship-holder’, a sucking-fish often met with in the Mediterranean.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > suborder Thoracica > member of > shell resembling
ship-nut1704
1704 Nat. Hist. iv, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 210 Ship-Nuts. Are hard Shells, which commonly adhere to Ships like the Barnacles.
ship-rat n. a variety of rat found on board ship.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Rattus (rat) > rattus rattus (black rat)
roof rat1837
ship-rat1860
1860 A. Wynter Curiosities of Civilisation 132 The ship-rat must not be confounded with the water-rat, which is an entirely different species.
1890 R. L. Stevenson in G. Balfour Life R. L. Stevenson (1911) 222 The ship-rats which infest the shores and invade the houses.
ship-stayer n. a fish of the family Echeneididæ.
ship-worm n. any of the worm-shaped mollusks of the genus Teredo and allied genera, esp. T. navalis.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Pholadidae > member of
Teredo1398
tree-worm1398
broma1555
worm1621
pholas1661
pirot1686
piddock1696
file1705
pholad1708
pileworm1733
file-shell1752
file-fish1774
ship-worm1778
rock-piercer1783
borer1789
pholadean1842
1778 E. M. da Costa Hist. Nat. Testaceorum Brit. 21 S[erpula] Teredo. The Ship Worm.
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) VI. 149 The ship-worm is more apt to injure the vessel in this place than in other parts.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 562 Teredidæ, or Ship-worms.
c. Combinations with ship's (many of which have alternative forms in Compounds 1a; see also Compounds 2a). † ship's castle n. Obsolete† ship's quarter n. Obsolete
ship's anchor n.
ship's anchor n.
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1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A ships anker, een schips anker.
ship's apparel n.
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1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 278 The Ship's Apparel, as Boats, Anchors, Sails, Cordage.
ship's block maker n.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship's-block Maker, a manufacturer of large blocks for ship's use.
ship's book n.
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1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 19 These [sc. a captain's servants], tho' just pick'd off from a Taylor's Shop-board, are rated able on his Ship's Books.
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1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 155 The ships-castle behinde was most commonly adorned with the picture of one or other God.
ship's cook n.
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1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 344 Ship's Corporal... Ship's Cook.
ship's crew n.
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1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 13 The wretched Ship's Crew..get scarce the very Husk, whilst he [sc. the captain] runs away with the Flower of the Cargo.
ship's doctor n.
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1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 73 He cannot but pitty the Surgeon's Simplicity, for calling himself the Ship's Doctor, when all the World knows, that none but the Carpenter looks to her Wounds.
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xviii. 190 There was the ship's doctor.
ship's furniture n.
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1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 405/1 Parts of ship's furniture.
ship's journal n.
ΚΠ
1835 Tomlins' Law-Dict. at Ship's Papers The Log Book, or Ship's Journal.
ship's log n.
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?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 47 Ship's Log Maker.
ship's officer n.
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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Jan. 5/2 That comparatively small but highly important section of our sailors generally described as ‘ships' officers’.
ship's pump n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Ship's Pump, a suction-pump for freeing a ship's hold from water.
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1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 100 The standing part of the sheate, is that part which is made fast, by a clinch into a ring of the ships-quarter.
ship's steward n.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ship's steward, the person who manages the victualling or mess departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward.
ship's timepiece n.
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 240 A Ship's Timepiece has usually a lever escapement.
ship's writer n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > writer
ship's writer1881
1881 Naval Encycl. 745/2 Ship's writer, a petty officer who, under the directions of the executive-officer, does the writing and keeps the watch-, muster-, conduct-, and other books of the ship.
1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 384 Ship's Writer,..is a first class petty officer, and his duty is to keep the names and rates of the ship's company.
1969 T. Parker Twisting Lane 43 He wasn't a sailor, he was a kind of a clerk on board ship... I believe he was called a ship's writer.
ship's yeoman n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > officer with specific duty > [noun] > yeoman
yeoman1669
ship's yeoman1850
yeomanette1918
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxx. 149 The ship's Yeoman's store-room.
1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 356 Equipment Yeoman, formerly called ship's yeoman.
d.
ship's articles n. the terms according to which seamen take service on board ship.
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society > law > legal obligation > contract > [noun] > written contract or text of > according to which seamen take service
shipping-articles1840
ship's articles1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ship's Articles.
1875 Kay Shipmasters & Seamen ix. xvii. 704 Which by the special terms of his ship's articles was to cause a forfeiture of wages.
ship's cousin n. apparently humorously modelled on ship's husband.
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1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 64 However useful and active you may be, you are but a mongrel,—and sort of afterguard and ‘ship's cousin’.
ship's days n. the days allowed for loading and unloading a ship ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
ship's husband n. (see husband n. 5b).
ship's protest n. (see protest n. 3).
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society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > declaration relating to maritime liability
protest1622
ship's protest1846
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 194 Ship's protest, which should be compared with the log-book, and certified by the agent.
ship's registry n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > certificate issued by registering official
ship's registry1867
register1876
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ship's registry and certificate, an official record of a ship's size, the bills of lading, ownership, &c.
ship's time n. the local mean time of the meridian where the ship is.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
shipn.2
Printing colloquial.
= companionship n. 4.
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor > body of
companionship1808
ship1875
1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 18 The best ‘ship’ is kept going with work from the others, rather than be suffered to stand still.
1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 221 The chief of the companionship or ‘ship’..receives the copies from the overseer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
shipn.3
/ʃɪp/, U.S. /ʃɪp/ slang.
A romantic pairing of two characters who appear in a work of (serial) fiction, esp. one which is discussed, portrayed, or advocated by fans rather than depicted in the original work; (also) fans who support a particular pairing, considered collectively. Cf. shipper n.2
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1996 Re: Idle Thoughts on Idle Afternoon in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Sept. If CC&Co suddenly changed their minds and wrote a 'ship into the show, I wouldn't run to my room and pout.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 May i. 23/2 Hard core fans debate which characters will end up romantically linked. They call their rival camps ‘ships’, for relationships, and some partisan Web sites denounce or ban advocates of rival ‘ships’.
2007 Sectus (Programme of Unofficial Harry Potter Conf., 19–22 July) 41 Of all the ships in the Harry Potter fandom, Harry/Draco is probably one of the oldest and largest.
2014 Wire (Nexis) 3 Feb. While the rest of the Harry Potter fandom argue over Harry X Hermione or Ron X Hermione ships, I sit here with my [one true pairing] Dramione and not giving a damn.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
shipv.1
/ʃɪp/, U.S. /ʃɪp/ a. passive. To be furnished with a ship or ships.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [verb (intransitive)] > be furnished with ship(s)
shipc900
c900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) ann. 893 Se micla here..wurdon gescipode.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia v. 298 Seeing himselfe at anchor, slightly shipt, Besieg'd, betraide by winde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 48 Mon. Is he well shipt? Cas. His Barke is stoutly timberd. View more context for this quotation
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Shiped, gescheept.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [verb (reflexive)] > provide oneself with ship(s)
ship1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 55 Euery horseman cannot mount himself alike, neither euery Seaman ship himselfe as he would.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip
ship1052
graith1297
tackle1486
trimc1513
equip1574
outred1577
to fit out1670
1224–5 Foreign Acc., L.T.R. No. 1 Municione et Schippatione nauium et galiarum.]
3. figurative.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. Cv After long trauaile through the Asian maine, I shipt my hopefull thoughts for Britany.absolute.1479 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 18 I wyll nat schepe tyll I have my money hom in lecters of payment.1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 104 Syr thay hawhe begwn to schype at London.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 703/2 We can nat go hence yet, we have nat all shypped.
a. To put or take (persons or things) on board ship; to cause (a person) to embark; to place (goods) in a ship for transportation.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > put on ship
ship13..
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > put or take on board
put to shippinga1300
ship13..
board1542
emboat1542
embark1550
to get aboard1577
to take in1585
imbarge1604
inship1615
to take on1877
13.. K. Alis. 6062 He schipeth heom in schipes cayvars, In dromondes, and in lumbars.
1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 276/1 The said Merchantz Englissh, that shippen, or shall shippe any Merchandise.
1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 130 To remembir þat Guton malt must be shipped at Blakeney.
1513 Pace in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 179 An army..whiche he affirmith to be nowe schippidde redy to passe the see.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 67 We shippyd our horses at Caleys.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 11 Pigmalions riches was shipt.
1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 100 King Henry the fifth, was shipping his men for France.
1689 London Gaz. No. 2486/3 The Lord Hewit's Regiment of Horse will be shipped to morrow.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 271 He was shipped on board a vessel bound to Old Spain.
1818 W. Scott Let. 7 Dec. (1933) V. 265 I rather fear that a quantity of game..which was shipd at Inverness for the Doctor never reachd him.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking vi. 139 Upon a cargo being shipped, bills of lading..are filled up with the name of the shipper.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 41 §17 Any harbour or any works in or at which vessels can..ship or unship goods or passengers.
b. said of the ship.
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1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xiii. 374 All vessels shall ship or take in all their cargoes..below the Canal at Blackwall.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. ii. 36 A little vessel was shipping grain.
a. passive. Of a person: To have gone on board, to be embarked. Obsolete.
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c1300 Prose Life St. Brandan (Percy) 37 Whan they were all shypped, sodeynly this yonge man vanysshed away.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 387 Thei are schepped now eche a wyght.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lvi. l. 114 Thike same Nyht..that In to the See I-scheped they were.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. B3 My royall father is both shipt and gone.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 72 Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 203 We heard that all the Spaniards..were shipped.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 120 As soone as shipt; as soone as actiue ores Had mou'd the surges.
b. reflexive. To go on board ship, embark. Also with off (cf. 7b). Obsolete or archaic.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (reflexive)] > embark or take ship
shipc1540
embark1550
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1783 Antenor..Shippit hym full shortly & his shene folke.
1600 R. Carr tr. Mahumetane Hist. f. 62v Who..was commaunded to ship himselfe againe in a barque that was prepared.
1607 E. Sharpham Fleire ii. (1610) E 1 Ile send you to Graues-end, Ile see you in the Tilt-boate, When you are there, ship your selues.
a1647 P. Pette in Archaeologia (1796) 12 219 I was constrained to ship myself to sea upon a desperate voyage.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 244 They shipp'd themselves to serve in the Ship.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lii. 129 The Puritans, restrained in England, shipped themselves off for America.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 317 It was thought that the waves had swallowed them when they shipped themselves from the west.
5. intransitive. To go on board ship, embark. Now rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > embark or take ship
shipa1122
to take (one's) shippinga1300
to take waterc1425
boat1540
embarka1586
bark1592
to get aboarda1616
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1091 Se eorl..on Wiht scipode & into Normandig for.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 467/179 Huy schypeden in þe salte se.
c1300 K. Horn (Laud) 1013 Þe page was blyþe And schepede wel swyþe.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 28 Þer er many hauens for to schippe at.
c1468 in Archaeologia (1846) 31 327 The Fryedaye next after the Nativite of Sainct John Baptist, she shippid at Margate.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 575 Then schippyt thai, for-owtyn mar.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 1 I shipped at Rye, in Sussex.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 378 Quhen at Leith tha had shipit in.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B2 Tis his highnesse will, That presently your cosen ship for France With all his powers.
1690 London Gaz. 2551/3 The 400 Horse..and many Foot..marched to Highlake, where, it's believed, they are Shipping this day.
1891 Spectator 17 Jan. People wishing to get from London to New York..ship at Liverpool.
6. † b. To sail about. Obsolete.
a. To go by ship to, into, or from a place. Now chiefly U.S. Cf. sense 6c below.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)]
sailc893
lithec900
fleetc1275
ship13..
assailc1450
waft?a1562
sneir1568
sulk1579
single1587
navigate1588
waff1611
passage1791
13.. Metr. Hom. in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 57 265 Faste he drouh toward þe se For schipen he wolde to oþur þede.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xx. 6 We schipiden aftir dayes of therf looues fro Philippis.
c1400 Rowland & O. 742 Þay Schipped ouer at Vertely In to þe landes of lumbardy.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 I determyned me to take that voyage & shipped from southampton[e].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xiv. 34 They shipped ouer, & came in to the londe of Genazereth.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 247 The emperour, speedily shipped ouer into Asia.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 79 [They] have slipt away and shipt hence.
1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. xxxvii. 279 You regularly make me wish that I had shipped back to American City.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xvi. 171 By the time Frank and his units left the armory and shipped to Fort Lee there was a lot of bad blood.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > cruise or sail about
ship1387
range1618
cruise1651
boat1817
meander1821
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 95 He hadde schipped aboute Est Engelonde [L. circumnavigata Estanglia].
c1450 Mirk's Festial 260 As I was schyppyng yn þe see, I come to an yle.
c. U.S. Military slang. to ship out: to depart, to be transported; also figurative (cf. to shape up or ship out at shape v. 19e); to ship over: to re-enlist, to volunteer for a tour of duty.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1908 L. G. Tisdale Three Years behind Guns xxiii. 259 Do you want to ship over?
1924 M. Anderson & L. Stallings What Price Glory? i. i. 7 When I left China the Yangtse was full of the bodies of virgins that drowned their beautiful selves because I was shipping over.
1948 Sat. Evening Post 10 July 88/2 Cashing in or shipping out, it made no difference as long as you didn't watch them die.
1953 CEC Bull. Jan. 31/1 This outfit shipped out of Davisville 12 September 1943.
1964 G. L. Coon Short End 223 I wouldn't ship over in Korea, and especially in Pankari.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xvi. 171 At the end of the month, when everybody shipped out, I bought Frank a present.
7.
a. transitive. To send or transport by ship. †to ship out: to export.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)]
fraughtc1425
ship1436
waff1586
waft1594
float1739
navigate1795
society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > import or export [verb (transitive)] > export
to ship out1436
send1596
to trade outwarda1631
export1665
to send forth1825
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 160 Saffron, quiksilver,..Is into Fflaundres shypped fulle craftylye.
1495 Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 12 Bocht in Handwarp and schepit in the Cristoffir of the Fer.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 27 §1 Wolle felles..to be shipped owte of the seid Realme to the seid Staple at Cales.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. i. 29 The sunne no sooner shall the mountaines touch, But we will ship him hence. View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Tucker Rep. Revenues Scot. (Bannatyne Club) 26 South Barwick, where the Scots and English both did usually shippe out Skyns, Hides, Wooll.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 45 One half of the Produce being to himself, and the other to be shipp'd to England.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 419 Rude Pyrates seiz'd, and shipp'd thee o'er the main.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. i. 69 The third [son] was a Roué, and was shipped to the Colonies.
1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 127 To ship the silver to England.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 53 Ship me somewheres east of Suez.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 15/4 Goods shipped in the mail vessels.
b. esp. with off.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > send by ship
ship1669
1669 S. Sturmy Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. If any Wharfinger..shall..Ship off..any Wares..at any unlawful time.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4239/1 They Shipt off 900 of their sick and wounded Men.
1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) (at cited word) The inhabitants ship off yearly..seven or eight thousand chaldrons of coal.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 195 He would himself send the recusant to prison, or ship him off for Flanders.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 38 Till their numbers became excessive and these were shipped off by the prudence of their rulers to found colonies.
c. transferred. To transport (goods) by rail or other means of conveyance. U.S.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)]
drawc1300
freight1540
consign1653
run1701
haul1741
ship1857
travois1908
1857 Harper's Mag. Sept. 459/2 A few of the more enterprising operators..thought nothing of shipping two or three thousand tons per annum.
1872 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. 205 The remainder is shipped by rail to other parts of this State.
1881 Chicago Times 17 June To ship their freight by rail.
1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 663/2 We..shipped our..collection of luggage to the hotel.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xiii. 201 No, I'll not ship any more cattle to your town.
1926 D. L. Colvin Prohibition in U.S. 533 A case of brewers in Illinois having shipped beer in kegs..to their agent in Iowa.
d. figurative. To send off, send packing, get rid of, dismiss, expel.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 206 Andronicus would thou were shipt to hell. View more context for this quotation
1826 in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) II. 31 After a good deal of bustle, all were shipped off, except Aunt Cunningham.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. ii. 41 Old Foolscap says he'll ship me the next time I'm absent half-an-hour without leave.
e. intransitive. Of perishable goods: to admit of being transported.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > admit of being transported [verb (intransitive)]
ship1870
1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 510 It ships well, and is a very good peach.
1927 Daily Express 9 Nov. 5/5 Persimmons..will probably be as plentiful and popular as the banana, because it ships well and grows..freely.
8. Of a vessel: To take in (water) over the side; to be submerged or flooded with (water) by waves breaking over it; esp. to ship a sea. Said also of the occupants of the vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > suffer shipwreck [verb (intransitive)] > take in water
to take in (also on) water1530
to ship a sea1698
wet1874
society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > take in (water)
lade1412
ship1698
dish1847
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 13 In this Encounter we shipped many a perilous Sea.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 10 Our Ship rid Forecastle in, shipp'd several Seas.
a1734 R. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North (1744) 15 We shipt Seas over our Poop.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 342 Baling out the water which she accidentally ships.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xx. 153 Driving before the wind, shipping seas at every roll.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xvii. 138 The rowing ceased,..and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a drop.
9.
a. To take or draw (an object) into the ship or boat to which it belongs. Also with up.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > take into ship
ship1630
1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 65 No Fisherman..shall at any Time hereafter ship their Draw-Nets (called Shipping a-stern) into their Boats, before such Time as they have laid forth all their whole Net.
1894 Outing 24 257/2 As we shipped up our rod the natives began to assemble.
1898 W. W. Jacobs Grey Parrot in Sea Urchins (1906) 213 The visitors went ashore, the gangway was shipped, and..the Curlew drifted slowly away from the quay.
b. To lift (an oar or scull) out of its rowlock, and (now, in sculling) to bring it into the boat (cf. boat v. 2b and unship v.). (See also quot. 1898.) Also absol. as a command = ‘ship oars!’For another sense of ‘ship oars’ see 10.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > take oar out of rowlock
ship1700
boat1837
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 365 The Sailors ship their Oars, and cease to row.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 470 And now they ship their oars, and crown with wine The holy Goblet to the pow'rs divine.
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 32 To ship the oar or scull is to jerk it out of the row~lock, and to boat it, to bring it on board.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 28 The stranger came to the bank, shipped his sculls, and jumped out.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 14 I shipped the oars and lay back thinking.
1896 J. Ashby-Sterry Tale of Thames xxi ‘Easy all!’ says Auntie, following the command by ‘Ship!’
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 297/2 (Rowing) Ship, to lift the handle of the oar when the blade is on the water, and then to allow it to float, with the motion of the boat, alongside.
10.
a. Originally and esp. Nautical. To put (an object) in position for performing its proper function; spec. to fix (an oar) in the rowlock, in readiness to row; hence, to put in position for any purpose.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > for use > by positioning
ship1616
fix1663
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > put in proper place or make secure
ship17..
house1741
to batten down1823
snug1881
snug1898
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > put oar in rowlock
ship17..
1616 G. Chapman tr. Musaeus Divine Poem 352 His faire Limbes of his weede, he strip't: Which, at his head, with both hands bound, he shipt.
17.. Greenland Voy. iii, in Coll. Old Ballads (1738) III. 173 Each Man ship his Oar, and leave nothing on Shoar That is needful the Voy'ge to advance.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) To ship the oars, i.e. to fix them in their row-locks. To ship the swivel-guns, is to fix them in their sockets.
1798 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 53 He had a new rudder made upon his own deck, which was immediately shipped.
1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. S. Austral. II. 166 Seven or eight [natives]..crept into the reeds, with their spears shipped to throw at us.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 33 Shipping a single oar in the stern, [he] began to scull out with all his might.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. xii. 189 The skylight was shipped on again.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 71 Which mast and sail are..never shipped until required.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 195 No. 3..ships and unships the handspike.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Ship capstan-bars.
1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. A hole big enough to ship the mainmast in.
b. intransitive (for passive). To admit of being placed in position; to have a certain position in a contrivance.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being placed
ship1833
1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 80 [The pan] is made to ship and unship.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1169 The top-sides..which are fitted to ship and unship as occasion may require.
11.
a. To put on (clothing, etc.); also, to shoulder (a burden).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on
to do oneOE
graitha1375
puta1382
to take on1389
to let falla1400
takea1400
to put on?a1425
endow1484
addressa1522
to get on1549
to draw on1565
don1567
to pull on1578
dight1590
sumpterc1595
to get into ——1600
on with1600
array1611
mount1785
to cast on1801
endoss1805
endue1814
ship1829
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry > carry on back or shoulders > take on back or shoulders to be carried
shoulder1611
subhumerate1628
endorse1807
superhumerate1837
ship1910
1829 H. L. Maw Jrnl. Passage from Pacific to Atlantic 16 Their regard for new and gay shoes, of which they ‘ship’ a new pair every Sunday morning.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xxiii. 188 He..took off his white jacket, and shipped a blue one.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. iii. 48 I had shipped the swab... I'm lieutenant.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxiv. 163 He pauses, ships a new face altogether.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 758/2 The bearers fitted their shoulders under the straps and shipped their burden.
b. to ship a stripe: to gain promotion in the navy or air-force. colloquial.
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1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 38 I see in this morning's paper that I have shipped another stripe (Flight Lieutenant).
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 333/2 For once his clothes were more interesting than mine for he had ‘shipped’ his half-stripe, and was a whole degree more important in the world!
12.
a. transitive. To engage for service on a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [verb (transitive)] > engage for service on ship
ship1643
1643 Declar. Commons conc. Rebellion in Ireland 50 He..was shipped..to serve in the said Frigot.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. viii. 150 I was Shipt Mate of the Sloop that came from Malacca with us.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 17 It was my great Misfortune, that in all these Adventures I did not ship my self as a Sailor.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 117 Instead of shipping some hands to make our work easier.
b. intransitive. To engage to serve on a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > practice the calling of a sailor [verb (intransitive)] > engage to serve on a ship
ship1829
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer III. ii. 46 We never ask questions when a seaman ships for us.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xi. 145 One of the Spaniards shipped on board as an ordinary seaman.
1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 27 As soon as the money's gone they'll ship, but not before.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
shipv.2
/ʃɪp/, U.S. /ʃɪp/ slang.
transitive. To discuss, portray, or advocate a romantic pairing of (two characters who appear in a work of (serial) fiction), esp. when such a pairing is not depicted in the original work. Also intransitive. Cf. shipper n.2
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1998 X-Files Official Mag. Winter 8/1 To ship, or not to ship?—That is the question we asked readers... And answer in droves they did, with a loud and resounding, ‘Yes!’...Mulder and Scully should become involved in an overtly romantic capacity right now!
1999 Who lives Happly ever After in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet newsgroup) 26 Sept. Let me warn you K/T shippers my friend who ships this couple Pissed me off so I stared [read started] writing this.
2005 A. Peckham Urban Dict. 278/2 Ship, to endorse a romantic relationship. I ship Ron and Hermione.
2006 Observer (Nexis) 6 Aug. 5 There's fan fiction with plot, and then there's fan fiction which is just sex. But we sub-divide ourselves into who you ship.
2013 M. Kirby-Diaz in J. K. Stuller Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 43 Over half of the fans who responded to the survey were Buffy/Spike fans, while slightly more than one-third each 'shipped Buffy/Angel and Angel/Spike.
2014 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 7 Sept. Fans ship characters across shows, gender lines.., species and even scientific possibilities.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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v.21998see also
- anti-portable
- anti-position
- anti-positivist
- anti-poverty
- anti-prelate
- anti-prelatic
- anti-prelatical
- anti-prelatist
- anti-professionalism
- anti-progressist
- anti-progressive
- anti-proliferation
- anti-prophet
- anti-prostitution
- anti-puritan
- anti-putrefactive
- anti-putrescent
- anti-rabic
- anti-rabies
- anti-rabietic
- anti-rabific
- anti-racism
- anti-racist
- anti-radiating
- anti-radiation