shippingn.1
/ˈʃɪpɪŋ/ 1. A ship or ships for the use or accommodation of a person or thing.† b. In general use (sometimes passing into abstract sense = accommodation on board ship, provision of a ship or ships); also plural ships.
a. in phrases: †to do shipping, dight shipping, put to shipping, to put on board; to take (†one's) shipping (now archaic), to embark; occasionally pregnantly, to go abroad; also to deliver to shipping (? U.S.).
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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
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
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24815 Elsis to scipping son him did.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 24828 Þai diȝt him to shipping sone.
?a1400 Arthur 339 Eche man hath take his schuppynge.
c1440 Generydes 4186 Anone thei putt ther horses to shippyng.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 76 Another partye peryshyd by swerd and that other toke schyppyng.
1535 A. Borde Let. in Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) Foreword 56 I was in cathalonya when þe emprowe tok sheppyng in-to barbary.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 53 My Lord Shandois and myself resolved to take Shipping for the Low Countrys.
1691 London Gaz. No. 2647/4 'Tis believed he will take Shipping.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 1 I..took Shipping in the Downs on the 20th Day of June 1702.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. 285 Taking shipping for Italy, he was once more wrecked.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. v. 83 The troops all took shipping.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 48 It is delivered to shipping at Richmond, at fifteen cents a bushel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > provision of or accommodation on
shipping13..
13.. K. Alis 990 Gold and seolver, and othir thynges, They trussed to heore schepynges.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24807 Sone it was his schipping tift wid presand.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xx. 92 Bot for he..myght get schipping na ferrere, he turned agayne as he come.
14.. Beues 2669 Let vs haue shyppynge to, And we shal to that yle go.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 772 Bot gif he had shippyng wroght Whilk as nane wer sene beforne.
c1468 in Archaeologia (1846) 31 327 It plesid the kinge to follow aftir hir, and to see her shippinges.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 400 He gat schippyne gud plente.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. L.iiii But..Their shipping is preparde.
1579 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 428 He would so bring the one halfe quarter or therd parte in any suche shipp or shippinges coming to Galway.
1620 R. Cocks Diary (1883) II. 119 Yt was agreed Mr. Ed. Sayer shall goe merchant in the shipp Bull, and Robt. Hawley and Ric. King..to goe in other shipping.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 105 This wheate is carryed by shippinge to Newe-Castle.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iv. 98 I will..seize on shipping, and embark for Flanders.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. v. 145 I will take care that Blackburn and his cousin-archers have no assistance of shipping from Flanders.
2. Ships collectively; the body of ships that belong to a person's or country's fleet, that frequent a particular port or harbour, or that are used for a certain purpose.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > collectively
navya1375
navire1429
vessel1436
navinc1480
navigation?1589
shipping1591
water carriage1612
tonnage1633
craft1644
marine1669
1591 Proclam. Elizabeth I 16 Sept. No Corne nor other Victuall, nor any Ordonance, nor furniture for shipping.
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 4 Five of the Queenes shippinge.
1601 R. Hakluyt tr. A. Galvano Discov. World 90 From thence vpwards in small shipping he went along the coast of the Abassins and Ethiopia.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27v Cornewall is stored with many sorts of shipping.
1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 1 Goods Imported..in Forreign Shipping.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) 99 There are employed in the Guinny and American Trade, above forty thousand Tun of Shipping per annum.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 68 A River very commodious for Shipping.
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. iii. 386 Cork Harbour and Bantry Bay are among the finest asylums for shipping in the world.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 345 He..ventured down toward the shipping, to see if the vessel had sailed.
1897 G. A. Henty On Irrawaddy viii The British sick were sent away in the shipping to Mergy.
a. Navigation. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun]
shippinga1400
navigation1539
a1400 New Test. (Paues) Acts xxvii. 9 Whanne..was no forþer siker schippynge ande saylynge.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 37 They little reake for marine worke, and small for shipping care.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 14 Ireland was nigh, but we finde nothing concerning their interest in shipping.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 409 A lover of the sea, & skillfull in shipping.
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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
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 183/2 He made a shyppyng into grete brytaygne.
c1580 tr. Bugbears iv. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 God send you good shipping.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C2v Gone he is, God send him good shipping to Wapping.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. i. 37.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xxiii. 246 If his said men be sent in two shippings, then he shall goe in the last.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love v. 78 My Master's in, heavens send him good shipping with his lye.
1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 236 He believed he should receive his answer by ye ffirst Shipping hether out of England.
4. The action of putting persons or things on board ship or transporting them by ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun]
shipping1483
water carriage1516
wafting1559
waftage1606
shippage1611
reshipping1617
transwaftage1624
waterage1677
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > putting persons or things on board
shipping1483
embarking1591
embarkment1596
embarkation1645
1483 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 144 Item Syr understond that schyppyng ys begon at London.
1499 A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 161 Paid for the schipin of my Lordis stan in Brugis..24s.
1532 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 156 For pynour fee and schipping of the wyne, aill, and gunnis xij d.
1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 385 Of the paine in shipping, of the care in conueying your wares..home to your owne house.
1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 3 Goods are forfeited for Undue Shipping or Landing.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 410 A licence for the shipping off his stores and provisions.
1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) ii. 278 Unless the Wine be imported..directly from..the usual port or place of its first shipping.
1884 Leeds Mercury 15 Nov. 6/5 The shipping of her récidivistes to penal settlements.
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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
14.. Beues 4286 He toke his leve at the kyng And at all his seli shyppyng.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
shipping-centre n.
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1898 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Oct. 300 Shipping centers on navigable rivers.
shipping-clerk n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Shipping-clerk, a merchant's clerk who attends to the shipment of goods.
shipping company n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship-owning > [noun] > ship-owner > company
ocean line1873
Messageries Maritimes1887
shipping company1897
shipping line1908
shipping house1919
1897 Whitaker's Almanack 709/1 The New Zealand Shipping Company was established to run steamers direct to New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia.
1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 239/1 Shipping companies are complaining that apple shipments are not as heavy as they desire.
shipping-crane n.
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1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 104 Shipping crane with a Reysing gynne.
shipping house n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship-owning > [noun] > ship-owner > company
ocean line1873
Messageries Maritimes1887
shipping company1897
shipping line1908
shipping house1919
1919 Brit. Manuf. Nov. 40/2 The attempt to do away with the shipping house.
shipping-interest n.
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1824 Holt Shipping & Navig. Laws (ed. 2) Introd. 24 This statute has conferred a most solid benefit upon the shipping interest.
shipping lane n.
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1931 W. G. Carr By Guess & by God xii. 194 German submarines which..lurked about the shipping lanes waiting to attack the Allied merchantmen.
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xii. 122 Ice-breakers keeping two shipping lanes clear all through the winter.
shipping line n.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > shipping line
line1848
surf line1848
sailing-line1905
shipping line1908
flag line1944
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship-owning > [noun] > ship-owner > company
ocean line1873
Messageries Maritimes1887
shipping company1897
shipping line1908
shipping house1919
1908 J. R. Smith Ocean Carrier ii. iii. 275 The starting of rival shipping lines is deterred by the certainty of fierce competition.
1981 A. Graham-Yooll Forgotten Colony xviii. 244 The Houlder Brothers shipping line..had been prominent in the meat trade for almost one century.
shipping-place n.
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1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 63 To carry it [viz. sugar]..a considerable distance to the shipping-places.
shipping-point n.
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1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 309 The town of Labran is the shipping-point of the Cañon City coal.
1926 Cent. Mag. 113 104 Dayton, Tennessee, that small village was actually the shipping point for two million words of telegraphic news.
shipping pool n.
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1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 986/2 Early in 1902 a shipping pool or ‘combine’ was effected in the case of certain important British steam lines engaged in the North Atlantic trade.
shipping-port n.
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1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 114 One of the shipping ports on the west coast of Scotland.
shipping-trade n.
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1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 128 The..Advance of the Shipping Trade.
shipping-yard n.
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1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 4 A noisy shipping yard.
C2. Special combinations:† shipping-money n. Obsolete = ship-money n.
shipping-agent n. a licensed agent who transacts a ship's business for the owner.
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships
husband1674
ship-agent1813
ship-broker1816
shipping-agent1843
shipping-broker1861
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiii. 169 Various shipping-agents in the city.
shipping-articles n. = ship's articles n. at ship n.1 Compounds 2d.
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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
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 345 He went to a shipping-office, where the shipping articles of the California were open.
shipping-bill n. a bill of lading.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > book or list of cargo > bill of lading, etc.
cargason1588
bill of lading1599
cargo1678
book of lading1806
shipping-bill1833
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 52 §71 The Person clearing such Goods for Shipment..shall..deliver a Shipping Bill.
Shipping Board n. (see quot. 1922).
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > regulatory authorities
Trinity House1566
pilotage1811
Lloyd's Register (of Shipping)1819
Shipping Board1919
1919 Daily Mail Year Bk. 78/1 Help of another kind was given to the Allies at sea by the American Shipping Board.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 1031/2 The Shipping Board was the first of the new war boards to begin to function.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 146/2 The U.S. Shipping Board which fixed ocean freight rates.
1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 250/3 Orders have now been placed by the United States Shipping Board for 18 Diesel engines to be installed in vessels of about 8,000 tons deadweight.
shipping-broker n. = ship-broker n. at ship n.1 Compounds 2a.
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships
husband1674
ship-agent1813
ship-broker1816
shipping-agent1843
shipping-broker1861
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxxvii, in All Year Round 27 Apr. 102 A worthy young merchant or shipping-broker.
shipping fever n. Veterinary Medicine (originally U.S.) any of several diseases typically contracted by cattle while being shipped from place to place, esp. one caused by bacteria of the genus Pasteurella.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1932 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 80 165 The incidence of shipping fever was greatest during wet, cold weather.
1955 Sci. News Let. 15 Oct. 249/3 Shipping fever, the costly cattle disease that strikes like human influenza, makes the movement of cattle from range to feedlot one of the most dangerous activities in the livestock industry.
1970 T. G. Hungerford Dis. Livestock (ed. 7) 332/1 Smeal recorded a case which clinically suggested shipping fever.
shipping leaf n. (see quot.).
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1863 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. 5 669 Those heavy descriptions of tobacco known in Virginia as heavy shipping leaf.
shipping-master n. an official who superintends the signing-on and discharging of seamen.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > official who signs on or discharges seamen
shipping-master1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 345 He was told by the shipping-master that she was bound to California.
1853 Maude & Pollock Law Merch. Shipping iv. 92 Shipping offices, superintended by persons called shipping masters.
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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 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) App. 3/2 The shipping mony may be putt vigorously vppon collection.
shipping-note n. a note containing particulars of goods for shipment (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).
shipping-office n. (a) an office where seamen sign on for a voyage; (b) ‘an office where a shipping-agent receives goods for shipment’ (Funk's Standard Dict.).
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > offices concerned with shipping
victualling-office1668
ballast office1677
shipping-office1840
1840Shipping-office [see shipping-articles n.].
shipping-order n. (see quot. 1844).
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1844 Francis Dict. Trade, etc. Shipping Order, is a written mandate directed by a merchant to his lighterman, ordering him to receive and put on board a certain ship the goods specified in the order.
shipping ore n. ore suitable for being shipped.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > suitable for shipping
shipping ore1877
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 242 The ore-vein yields a large portion of ‘shipping’ or first-class ore.
shipping-papers n. = ship-papers n. at ship n.1 Compounds 2a.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun]
papers1651
ship-papers1661
shipping-papers1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 338 He..pointed to the shipping-papers of the Pilgrim, from which my name had never been erased.
shipping tobacco n. tobacco grown for export.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > for export
shipping tobacco1883
1883 Killebrew in Rep. 10th Census U.S. III. iii. 194 Dark Shipping tobacco is generally raised on rich lots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
shippingn.2
/ˈʃɪpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/ slang.
The activity of discussing, portraying, or advocating 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) a pairing of this type. Frequently attributive. Cf. shipper n.2
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1997 Re: Shipper Epiphany in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet newsgroup) 29 Apr. I'd have to say the very first time the 'shipping fantasy truly spoke to me was in [the episode] Tooms.
2002 Guardian 5 Dec. (Online section) 4/4 ‘Shipping’—developing relationships between characters far removed from the author's original intent—is a common preoccupation.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 July 13 Linsenmayer runs a ‘shipping’ website (hers explores the relationship..between Harry and Hermione).
2013 Wire (Nexis) 18 Oct. Reddit even has an entire subreddit dedicated to ‘Johnlock’, the shipping of Cumberbatch's Holmes and Martin Freeman's Watson.
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