-ship /-ship/

1. Denoting: a condition or state, eg friendship, fellowship
2. Position, rank, status, eg lordship, kingship
3. A specified type of skill, eg craftsmanship, scholarship
4. A group of people having something in common, eg membership

ship /ship/

1. A large seagoing vessel using engines or sails, formerly esp a square-rigged sailing vessel with bowsprit and three masts
2. A racing-boat with eight oars
3. Any floating craft (also figurative)
4. An aircraft or airship
5. A spaceship
6. A ship's crew

1. To put, receive, or take on board
2. To send or convey by ship
3. To send by land or air
4. To dispatch, send (off)
5. To engage for service on board
6. To fix or place in position

1. To embark
2. To travel by ship
3. To engage for service on board ship

shipˈful noun

shipˈless adjective

shipˈment noun

1. The act of shipping cargo
2. A consignment, orig by ship, now extended to other forms of transport

shippˈable adjective

shipped adjective

1. Provided with a ship or ships (archaic)
2. Embarked

shippˈer noun

A person or company that sends goods by ship or aircraft

shippˈing noun

1. Ships collectively
2. Accommodation on board ship
3. (the act of) putting aboard ship
4. Transport by ship, the business of a shipper
5. A voyage (archaic)

ship biscuit noun

A hard biscuit formerly used as a staple food for sailors aboard ship, hardtack

shipˈboard noun

A ship's side, hence a ship

adjective

Occurring on board a ship

ship boy or ship's boy noun

A boy that serves on a ship

shipˈ-breaker noun

A person or company that breaks up old ships

shipˈbroker noun

A broker for the sale, insurance, etc, of ships

shipˈbuilder noun

A person or company that constructs ships

shipˈbuilding noun

ship canal noun

A canal large enough for ships

ship carpenter or ship's carpenter noun

A carpenter employed on board ship or in a shipyard

ship chandler or ship's chandler noun

A dealer in supplies for ships

ship chandlery noun

ship fever noun

A form of typhus fever

shipˈ-holder noun

A remora (qv)

shipˈlap noun

An arrangement of boards or plates, used esp on a ship's hull, in which the lower edge of one overlaps the upper edge of the adjacent one (also transitive verb and intransitive verb)

ship letter noun

A letter sent by a private vessel, not by the mail boat

shipˈload noun

The actual or possible load of a ship

shipˈman noun (pl shipˈmen) (archaic)

1. A sailor
2. A skipper
3. A pilot

shipˈmaster noun

The captain of a ship

shipˈmate noun

A fellow sailor

ship money noun (historical)

A tax imposed by the sovereign to raise money to build a fleet of ships, esp that raised without authorization of parliament by Charles I from 1635 onwards

ship of the desert noun

The camel

ship of the line noun

Before steam navigation, a man-of-war large enough to take a place in a line of battle

shipˈowner noun

The owner of, or owner of a share in, a ship or ships

shipping agent noun

A person or company that manages the administrative business of a ship on behalf of the owner

shipping articles plural noun

Articles of agreement between the captain and his crew

shipping clerk noun

A person employed by a shipper to deal with the receiving and dispatching of goods

shipˈpound noun

In the Baltic ports, twenty lispounds

ship railway noun

A railway for carrying ships overland

shipˈ-rigged adjective

Having three masts with square sails and spreading yards

ship's biscuit same as ship biscuit above.

shipˈshape adjective

1. In a seamanlike condition
2. Trim, neat, proper

ship's husband see under husband

ship's papers plural noun

Documents that a ship is required to carry

shipˈ-tire noun (Shakespeare)

A shiplike headdress

shipˈway noun

1. A sliding way for launching ships
2. A support for ships under examination or repair
3. A ship canal

shipˈworm noun

A wormlike lamellibranch mollusc (esp of the family Teredinidae) that makes shell-lined tunnels in submerged wood

shipˈwreck noun

1. A wrecked ship
2. The wreck or destruction (esp by accident) of a ship
3. Destruction, ruin, disaster
4. Wreckage (rare)

transitive verb

1. To wreck
2. To cause to undergo shipwreck
3. To cause ruin or destruction to

intransitive verb

To suffer or undergo shipwreck or destruction

shipˈwright noun

A wright or carpenter employed in shipbuilding

shipˈyard noun

A yard where ships are built or repaired

on shipboard

Upon or within a ship

ship a sea or ship water

To have a wave come over the side of a ship or boat

ship it green

To ship waves, not mere spray

ship the oars

1. To put the oars in the rowlocks
2. To bring the oars into the boat

ship water see ship a sea above.

take ship or shipping

To embark, set off on a voyage

when one's ship comes home or in

When one becomes rich

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