Ship

[ʃɪp]

Definition

(noun.) a vessel that carries passengers or freight.

(verb.) place on board a ship; 'ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel'.

(verb.) travel by ship.

(verb.) hire for work on a ship.

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Definition

(n.) Pay; reward.

(n.) Any large seagoing vessel.

(n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.

(n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

(v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.

(v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

(v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

(v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

(v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.

(v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

(v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

(v. i.) To embark on a ship.

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Definition

n. a vessel having three masts with tops and yards to each: generally any large sea-going vessel.—v.t. to put on board a ship: to engage for service on board a ship: to transport by ship: to fix in its place.—v.i. to engage for service on shipboard:—pr.p. ship′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. shipped.—ns. Ship′-bis′cuit hard biscuit for use on shipboard; Ship′board the deck or side of a ship; Ship′-boy a boy that serves on board a ship; Ship′-break′er one who breaks up vessels no longer fit for sea; Ship′-brok′er a broker who effects sales insurance &c. of ships; Ship′builder one whose occupation is to construct ships; Ship′building; Ship′-canal′ a canal large enough to admit the passage of sea-going vessels; Ship′-cap′tain one who commands a ship; Ship′-car′penter a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; Ship′-chand′ler a dealer in cordage canvas and other ship furniture or stores; Ship′-chand′lery the business wares of a ship-chandler; Ship′-fē′ver typhus fever as common on board crowded ships; Ship′ful as much or as many as a ship will hold; Ship′-hold′er a ship-owner; Ship′-lett′er a letter sent by a vessel which does not carry mails; Ship′-load the load or cargo of a ship; Ship′man a sailor:—pl. Ship′men; Ship′master the captain of a ship; Ship′mate a companion in the same ship; Ship′ment act of putting on board ship: embarkation: that which is shipped; Ship′-mon′ey a tyrannical tax imposed by the king on seaports revived without authorisation of parliament by Charles I. in 1634-37; Ship′-of-the-line before steam navigation a man-of-war large enough to take a place in a line of battle; Ship′-own′er the owner of a ship or ships.—adj. Shipped (Shak.) furnished with a ship or ships.—ns. Ship′per; Ship′ping ships collectively: tonnage: (Shak.) a voyage; Ship′ping-āg′ent the agent of a vessel or line of vessels to whom goods are consigned for shipment.—n.pl. Ship′ping-art′icles articles of agreement between the captain and his crew.—ns. Ship′ping-bill invoice of goods embarked; Ship′ping-mas′ter the official who witnesses signature by the sailors of the articles of agreement; Ship′ping-off′ice the office of a shipping-agent or of a shipping-master; Ship′-pound a unit of weight in the Baltic ports; Ship′-rail′way a railway by means of which vessels can be carried overland from one body of water to another.—adjs. Ship′-rigged (naut.) rigged like a ship having three masts with square sails and spreading yards; Ship′shape in a seaman-like manner: trim neat proper.—ns. Ship's′-hus′band the owner's agent in the management of a ship; Ship′-tire (Shak.) a sort of head-dress whether from its streamers or its general likeness to a ship; Ship′-way the supports forming a sliding-way for the building repairing and launching of vessels; Ship′-worm a genus (Teredo) of worm-like molluscs which perforate and live in timber lining the cavity or tube with a calcareous encrustation; Ship′wreck the wreck or destruction of a ship: destruction.—v.t. to destroy on the sea: to make to suffer wreck.—ns. Ship′wright a wright or carpenter who constructs ships; Ship′yard a yard where ships are built or repaired.—Ship a sea to have a wave come aboard; Ship's papers documents required for the manifestation of the property of a ship and cargo; Ship the oars (see Oar).—About ship! an exclamation to pull in the sheet preparatory to changing a ship's course during a tack; Make shipwreck of to ruin destroy; On shipboard upon or within a ship; Take ship or shipping to embark.

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