▪ I. ship, n.1
(ʃɪp)
Forms: 1–5 scip, (1, 4 scipp, 1–3 scyp, 3 sip), 3–4 schup, ssip, 3–7 schip, 4–5 s(c)hyp, shipp, schype, schippe, (4 schypp, shup, scippe, shyppe, schepe, 5 chip(pe, schyppe, shep), 4–6 schipp, 4–7 shippe, 5–6 shyppe, s(c)hipe, shype, shepe, 5–7 shipp, (6 sheppe, Sc. scheip(e), 4– ship.
[Com. Teut.: OE. scip str. neut. = OFris. skip, schip (NFris. skapp, skep, WFris. skip), OS. skip, MLG. schip, schêp (LG. schipp), MDu. sc(h)ip, sc(h)eep, Du. schip (oblique scheepe, comb. scheeps- beside schip-), WFlem. scheep, OHG. scif, skef (MHG. schif, schef, G. schiff), ON. skip (Sw. skepp, Da. skib), Goth. skip; the ultimate etymology is uncertain. The Germanic word appears in Romanic as F. esquif, It. schifo, etc., see skiff n.1]
1. 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 OE. used also for small craft, as ON. skip.
| c 725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 188 Scaphum, scip. c 888 ælfred Boeth. xxxviii. §1 Ða se Aulixes..to þam ᵹefiohte for, þa hæfde he sume hundred scipa. c 1050 O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 1048, Eadward cining & þa eorlas foran æfter þam ut mid heora scypun. c 1200 Vices & Virtues 45 Hlesteð hwat ðe hlauerd seið, ðe ðat scip auh, to ðe stieres⁓mannen. a 1225 Juliana (Royal MS.) 32/12 Þu leddest israeles folc þurh þe reade sea buten schip druifot. c 1250 Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 32 And so hi were in þo ssipe so a-ros a great tempeste of winde. a 1300 Cursor M. 13280 Petre and andreu..Wit a word þai left þair scipps tuin [Gött. schippis]. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. x. 160 A schup of schides and Bordes. c 1374 Chaucer Former Age 21 No ship yit karf the wawes grene and blewe. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (Jacobus Minor) 370 Quhat schepe þat brokine ware a-pone þat coste. c 1400 Three Kings Cologne (1886) 84 Þat þey had suffrid hem priuelich to passe ouer þe see in her scheppys. c 1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1423 Master of þe shepe, a word with the. 1541 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 149, I give to Mathue Wilson my shipe called Marie Janies. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 355 The skiper of the scheipe. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 182 My Shippes come home a month before the daie. 1671 Milton Samson 714 A stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles Of Javan or Gadier. 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 84 There's near as much Stuff drops from his [a sea⁓cook's] Carcass every Day as would tallow the Ship's Bottom. 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4380/3 One of the Rocks not being a Ships length to Leeward of her. 1798 Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. vi, The ship was cheer'd, the harbour clear'd. 1873 Longfellow Wayside Inn iii. Elizabeth iv, Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing. 1889 Welch 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. |
¶ Ships are now personified as feminine, but usage has varied (see the following
quots.).
The use of the
masc. pron. in the 17th and 18th
cent. was
prob. suggested by the application of
man to a ship in
Dutchman,
merchantman,
man-of-war. In instances before
c 1650
his may mean ‘its’.
| 1375, etc. [see she 2]. c 1426 Poem on Agincourt in Hazl. E.P.P. (1866) II. 97 Euery shyp wayed his anker.., They hoysed theyr sayles sayled a lofte. 1588 Kyd Househ. Phil. Wks. (1901) 278 In a shyppe the Rudder ought to be no lesse then may suffise to direct hys course. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 93 The Shippe boaring the Moone with her maine Mast. [1622 Recov. Exchange in Arb. Eng. Garner IV. 595 ‘A sail!’ ‘a sail!’: which, at last, was discovered to be another Man of War of Turks. For he made towards us. 1627 Capt. 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.] 1635 Hakewill Apol. (ed. 3) Argt., As a Ship which..cannot move beyond the length of his Cable. 1676 Streynsham Master Diaries (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
prep. Also
to take ship (see
take v. 24 c).
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. i. (1890) 256 Swa eode he in scip & ferde to Breotone. a 1122 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1046, Hi..wurpon hine on þone bat..& reowan to scipe. c 1205 Lay. 1098 Brutus nom Ignogen & into scipe [c 1275 to sipe] lædde. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1464 Þe emperour bigan to fle mid is folc atte laste To scipes. c 1350 Will. Palerne 5088 Partenedon passed to schepe & his puple after. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 354 Er þat he myghte brynge his wyf to shipe. 1474 Caxton Chesse ii. iv. (1883) 45 Guion fledd also in to affricque by shipp. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 29 He..went to Ship, setting aside all perils. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. (1611) 358 Finding him againe as soone as themselues by shippe were arriued on the contrary side. 1888 [see ex 2]. 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 Act 33 & 34 Vict. 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.
| 1878 Stevenson Inland Voy. 14 The bargee is on shipboard—he is master in his own ship—he can land whenever he will. 1888 Woodgate Boating 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. fig. Applied to the state.
| 1675 Machiavelli's Prince ix. Wks. 212 But when times are tempestuous, and the ship of the State has need of the help..of the Subject. 1894 Gladstone Odes of Horace 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. With qualifying word or phrase indicating the kind or use:
king's ship (now
Hist.), 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 (
opp. to
privateer); so
† ship-royal.
† great ship, a ship-of-war.
For
flagship,
hospital-ship,
ice-ship,
line-of-battle ship,
long ship,
merchant ship,
post-ship,
private ship,
slave-ship,
steamship,
store-ship,
troop-ship,
warship, etc. see the first elements; for
ship of burden,
of countenance,
of the line,
of post,
of state, see these
ns.; also
ship-of-war.
| [1350 in Rymer Fœdera (1825) III. i. 195 Johannes Wille, magister navis regis vocatæ La Plente.] |
| a 1400–50 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. 1485–7 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 36 The Kings ship cald the Grace dieu. 1495 Ibid. 161 The costes of Kepyng the Kynges Ship Ryall called the Soueraigne. 1512 in 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. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 688 The Easterlynges..approched the Englishe ship as nere as their great shippes could come at the lowe water. 1660 Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. 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. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 116 The Church here is a mighty Queen, a ship-royal. 1697 W. Dampier Voy. I. 50 There escaped but one Kings-ship, and one Privateer. Ibid. 357 Captain Swan had his men as much under command as if he had been in a Kings Ship. 1758 J. Blake Mar. 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. |
b. ship in a bottle, a model ship inside a bottle the neck of which is smaller than the ship.
| 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
fig. 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 d;
to give up the ship,
to burn one's ships, see
burn v. 9 c.
when one's ship comes home (or in), when one comes into one's fortune.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems ix. 165 Thow mak my schip in blissit port to arryif, That sailis heir in stormis violent. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 27 Doubting not to bring his ship to the porte desired. 1643 Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 209 Those who are conversant in the same danger, are said to be in the same Ship. 1680 Debates Parl. (1681) 117 Is not all England in danger to be lost? Let us secure the Ship, before we dispose of the Cabbins. 1816 Jefferson Writ. (1899) X. 4 My exhortation would rather be ‘not to give up the ship’. 1820 Shelley Œd. Tyr. i. i. 245, I drove her—afar!.. From city to city, abandoned of pity, A ship without needle or star. 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 175 One [customer] always says he'll give me a ton of taties when his ship comes home. 1855 Thackeray Newcomes lxv, That Mr. Ratray who has just come out of the ship, and brought a hundred thousand pounds with him. 1871 Hardy Desperate Remedies II. i. 39 He saw the strokes plainly, instantly resolving to burn his ships and hazard all on an advance. 1880 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 Allbutt's 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 Mahan War S. Africa v, Not the courage that throws away the scabbard, much less that which burns its ships. |
b. ship of fools [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.
| 1609 Dekker Guls Horne-Booke 3 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 Tennyson Voyage x, in En. Ard. 149 ‘A ship of fools’ he shriek'd in spite. 1919 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 [after the phrase by Longfellow: see
quot. 1873], used of people whose acquaintance is necessarily transitory.
| 1873 Longfellow Aftermath in Tales of Wayside Inn iii. iv. 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 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. a tight ship, a ship in which ropes, etc., are tight; hence a strictly run ship;
usu. transf. and
fig.| 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. transf. Applied to various objects that are, or are conceived to be, navigated.
† a. Noah's ark.
b. a balloon, aircraft, or powered spacecraft.
c. ship of the desert,
desert-ship: the camel.
d. ship of Guinea = Guinea ship (b)
s.v. Guinea 1.
| [a 1300 Cursor M. 9674 Noe..in þat scip allan was in.] 1422 Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. xxxvii. 193 In Noe's ship he and his wif, har thre sonys and har wiffis sawid were. c 1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1351 In þe shep of noee. 1526 R. Whitford Martiloge 12 b, Saynt Noe that made the shyppe. 1579 T. Stevens in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. ii. 99 A thing swimming vpon the water like a cocks combe (which they call a ship of Guinea). [1615 G. Sandys Trav. 138 Camels. These are the ships of Arabia, their seas are the deserts.] 1679 R. Hooke Philos. Collections No. i. 18 A demonstration, how it is practicably possible to make a ship which shall be sustained by the air, and may be moved either by sails or oars. 1709 Evening Post 20–22 Dec. 2 The description of a flying ship, lately invented. 1784, etc. [see aerial ship s.v. aerial a. 5]. 1823 [see desert n.2 1]. 1824 [see desert n.2 5]. 1860 Brit. Patent 1598 1 An improved navigable balloon or aerostatic ship. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xxi. 439 Those ships of the desert, the long line of his camels. 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air v. 151 The ships of the German air-fleet rising one by one. 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. |
5. 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.
| c 1410 Hoccleve Min. Poems xvii. 29, vj⊇ shippes grete, To yeue vs han yee grauntid & behight. 1490 Caxton Eneydos v. 22 Cymphes..ben in maner of lityl bokettis, or lytyl shippes, of a strange stone. 1525 in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 271 A ship of silver for the almes disshe. 1575–6 New Yrs. Gifts in Nichols Progr. Eliz. (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
Hist.| 1422 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1904) 14 Also iij sensers of siluer & gilt Also ij sheppis of seluere. 1472 in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 5 A ship of silver in passel gilt without spone. 1546 S. Fish Supplic. Poore Commons 75 Torches, tapurs, shepe, sensoures. 1593 Rites of Durham (Surtees) 8 Two Shipps of silver, parcell gilt, for principall dayes. 1843 Pugin Apol. Rev. Chr. Arch. 51 b, Two thuribles, with a ship for incense. 1898 J. W. Legg in Yorksh. Archæol. Jrnl. XV. 132 note, A censer with coals, a ship with incense, and a spoon. |
† c. The nave (see
nave n.2) of a church.
rare.
| 1613 tr. Mexio's Treas. Anc. & Mod. T. 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
Hist.| 1669 Phil. Trans. IV. 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 Ray Coll. Words 175. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. 1981 Times 14 July 3/2 Two hollow log ‘ships’ for boiling brine were found, dating to the sixteenth century. |
e. Astron. The Argo Navis, a southern constellation extending between Canis major and Centaurus from the equator nearly to the pole.
| 1599 T. Hill Sch. Skil 23 The image named the Ship, hath 45. stars. 1822 Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 508/1 [The milky way] traverses the constellations Cassiopeia,..Canis Major, and the Ship. 1868 Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 334. |
† 6. A shipful, shipload.
Obs.| 1455–6 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 290 A shype of iryn that come yn befor Michalmas. c 1595 Carew Excell. Eng. Tongue in G. G. Smith Eliz. Crit. Ess. (1904) II. 292 When wee would be rid of one, wee vse to saye..by circumlocution..another in your steede, a shipp of salte for you. |
7. a. A ship's company or crew.
| 1338 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 170 Do dight & mak ȝow bone, þe schip ere Sarazins alle. 1648 Hamilton Papers (Camden) 222 The twelue schipps that haue declared for the King doeth much startill ther former inclinations. 1748 Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 157 It was not the most eligible place for a ship to refresh at. |
b. old ship, a jocular address to a sailor.
| 1849 Cupples Green Hand i, ‘Come, old ship, give us a Yarn!’ said the younger forecastle-men to an old one. Ibid vi, ‘What's the odds, Harry, old ship?’ said Tom. |
8. attrib. and
Comb. a. Simple
attrib. = of or for, pertaining to, or concerning a ship or ships, used or fitted for use on board ship, as
ship-accounts,
ship-beak,
ship-bell,
ship-canal,
ship-captain,
ship-channel,
ship-crane,
† ship-dock,
† ship-gun,
ship life,
ship-pump, etc. (
Cf. the compounds with
ship's, 9 c.)
| 1815 Scott Guy M. xliii, *Ship-accounts and other papers. |
| 1613 T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1614) 9 Those *ship-beakes called in Latine Rostra. |
| 1871 Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Musician's T. iv. iv, When the dismal *ship-bell tolled. |
| 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 35 The *ship bow or loofe. |
| 1798 I. Allen 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. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-captain, the master and commander of a merchant-vessel. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Arabia II. 195 We fell in with a ship-captain. |
| 1887 J. Ball Natur. S. Amer. 356 The passengers..were resting in their *ship-chairs. |
| 1775 J. Quincy Let. 31 Oct. in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revolution (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. |
| 1676 Marvell Mr. Smirke 15, I suspected..that the Animadverter had been some *Ship-Chaplain. |
| 1699 W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 68 The Planters..were certain of a Hurricane, and warned the *Ship-Commanders to provide for it. |
| 1932 Auden Orators i. 16 Like those *ship-cranes along Clydebank. |
| 1585 Higins Junius' Nomencl. 398/1 Nauale, a *shipdocke, which is a place where ships are builded and repaired. 1659 Kilburne Kent 73 [Deptford] famous for the Shipdock, Storehouse and Corporation there for the Navy. |
| 1552 Huloet, *Shyp drudge,..Misonauta. |
| c 1000 Gl. Prud. in Germania (N.S.) XI. 389/42 Bellum classicum, *scypᵹefæoht. 1647 Hexham 1, A ship-fight, een schip-vecht. |
| 1408 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 226/1 *Schipfiȝttynge asketh to haue a loft see & nouȝt rowe see. |
| 1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton xvii. (1840) 289 The *ship firing is not at him. |
| 1715 Lond. 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. |
| 1644 H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 14 Bracketts. Are certaine little peeces..which belong to the supporting of galleries, or *ship-heads. |
| 1904 Sladen Playing the Game ii. ii, A pair of handcuffs and a pair of *ship-irons. |
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship-language, the shibboleth of nautic diction, as tau'sle, fok'sle, for topsail, forecastle. |
| 1849 Cupples Green Hand ix, It's nouther *ship-law nor shore-law..as houlds good on a bloody dazart! |
| 1873 Routledge's Young Gentl. Mag. 162 Familiar with *ship life. |
| 1485 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 291 The *shippe lofe which is made of clane whete as it cometh from the shefe. |
| a 1700 Evelyn Diary 1 Nov. 1660, A curious *ship modell. |
| 1655 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. (1663) 42 A Harquebuss, a Crock, or *Ship-musquet. |
| 1526 Grete Herball cccxliii. (1529) T iij, Pytche is of dyuers sortes for there is *shyppe pytche and pytche liquide or thynne, or tarre. c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health B 5 Let Shyp Pytche Be dyssolued one whole nyghte in stronge Vyneger. |
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 17 As it were *ship-planks caught vp from a shipwracke. 1712 J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 206 Ship-Plank of two or three Inches thick. 1857 Perley Hand-bk. N. Brunswick 11 For ship-planks and ship-timber. |
| 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. x. 94 The very Mariners..tooke heart to snatch vp the *Ship-poles, and to make resistance. |
| 1661 Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. Introd. a 6 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. |
| 1742 W. Ellis Timber-Tree Improved II. xxxvii. 181 The Timber is..of especial Use..for *Ship-pumps. 1834–6 Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 285/2 A good ship pump. |
| 1720 Pope Iliad xxiii. Notes end, The Naval-Course, or *Ship-Race. |
| 1661 Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. 48 Invoyces, Bills of Lading, *Ship-Roll, with other Instruments and ship-papers. |
| 1698 Act 10 Will. III, c. 14 §1 For building..or repairing of Stages *Shiprooms Trainfats. 1780 Jefferson Writ. (1853) I. 275 Great numbers of negroes..were left, either for the want of ship-room or through choice. 1841 Dana Seaman's Man. iii. iii. 212 The contract of passengers with the master is not for mere ship-room..on board. |
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 167/10 Rudentes, *sciprapas. 1675 Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 258 [He] shut the utter-gate, And with a ship-rope that lay by it ties. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 48 Other Ship ropes not vsed..about the masts. |
| 1585 Jas. VI Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 39 Since that only wind my *shipsailles blew. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 263 The weaving of..Ship-sailes. |
| 1485 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 74 *Ship spayres..iiij. |
| c 1300 K. Horn 1412 (Laud MS.) He comen out of *scyp sterne. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 27 The Boat rope, is that by which the boat is towed or tyed to the ship stern. |
| 1661 Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. 47 Embezilments of *ship-tackle or furniture. |
| 1647 Hexham i, *Ship-tackling, scheeps-koorden. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 32 Two necessary Instruments used much about the ship tacklings. |
| 1836 E. Howard R. Reefer lvi, It was pronounced, for *ship-tailoring, excellent. |
| 1717 Petiveriana iii. 202 Ring-Oak or White-iron..is esteemed the best for *Ship-use. |
| 1611 Chapman Iliad 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.
| 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 Runic Mon. 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 ― 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, as
ship-bearing,
ship-jumper,
ship-jumping,
ship-launch,
ship-maker, etc.
| 1596 Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxvii. 312 Washt with the once *ship-bearing Ley. |
| 1755 N. Magens Insurances II. 255 Brokers and *Ship-clearers, who would have Goods insured. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. Index E j b, A *ship-destroying Engine. |
| 1907 F. T. Bullen Advance Austral. xix, It was a fine piece of *ship-handling. |
| 1964 Punch 4 Mar. 336/3 Except for a few *ship-jumpers, most come by air. |
| 1959 P. McCutchan Storm South xv. 213 Genuine cases of *ship-jumping by men who had had enough of sail. |
| 1832 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada iv. (1836) 52 At Brockville we arrived..in time to enjoy..a *ship-launch. |
| 1552 Huloet, *Ship letter to hyre, nauicularius. |
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 337/1 A *Schyppe maker, barcarius. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-modeller,..one who lays down the proposed lines of a vessel. |
| 1762–71 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 101 Simon de Vlieger, an admired *ship-painter. |
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 253 James Brown, *ship-rigger. |
| 1892 Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker 8 Smuggling, *ship⁓scuttling, barratry, piracy. |
| 1655 Davenport K. John & Matilda v. i, From mine eyes, *ship-sincking Cataracts, Whold [sic] clouds of waters,..Shall fall into the Sea of my affliction. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-surveyor, an examiner of the condition, fittings, and sea-worthiness of ships. |
| 1806 Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tristia Wks. 1812 V. 299 Ship-brokers, or Ship-breakers, or *Ship-swabbers. |
| 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent 86 A most dreadfull gulfe, and *shippe swalower. |
d. adverbial,
esp. instrumental, as
ship-based,
ship-beset,
ship-borne,
ship-dotted,
ship-forsaken,
ship-laden adjs.; similative, as
ship-fashion adv.,
ship-like adj.| 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. |
| 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 95 A yellow strand and *ship-beset green sea. 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. |
| a 1835 Motherwell Poet. Wks. (1847) 5 The *ship-borne warriors of the North. |
| 1889 J. J. Hissey Tour Phaeton 216 The far-reaching, *ship-dotted sea beyond. |
| 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 585/1 Pinks sail with three masts, *ship-fashion. 1821 Scott Kenilw. xxxii, The chief table was adorned by a salt ship-fashion, made of mother-of-pearl. |
| 1735 Thomson Liberty i. 282 The *Ship-forsaken Bay. |
| 1857 Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 6 The yellow, rushing, *ship-laden river. |
| 1842 Faber Styrian Lake 239 The *shiplike clouds, which overwhelm The azure sky. 1855 Lynch Rivulet xxiv. ii, With a steady will unswerving, Ship-like may we onward press. 1864 tr. Vambéry's Trav. Central Asia 198 The camels, the shiplike movements of which I had formerly so much dreaded. |
9. a. Special comb.:
† ship-agent, a shipping agent;
† ship-bearer, one who carries an incense-boat;
† ship-beer [
cf. MDu. schipbier, G.
schiffsbier], beer made for consumption on board ship;
ship('s) biscuit, hard biscuit prepared for use on board ship, hard-tack; formerly called
ship('s) bread;
† ship-bridge, a pontoon bridge;
ship-broker, 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;
ship-brokerage, the business performed by a ship-broker;
ship-broking vbl. n. = ship-brokerage;
† ship-burden, a ship-load;
ship-carver,
-caulker (see
quots.);
† ship-chest,
-coffer, a chest used on board ship;
ship('s) company, the crew of a ship;
ship-contractor,
-deliverer (see
quots.);
ship('s) decanter, a decanter with a base of greater width than the shoulder;
† ship-fare, (
a) travelling by ship; (
b)
= ship-hire;
† ship-ferd, a navy;
ship-fever, a form of typhus fever, called also
gaol fever and
hospital fever;
ship float, (
a) a lighter; (
b) the splashers of a paddle-wheel (Knight
Dict. Mech. 1875);
† ship-fountain (see
quot.);
† ship-fraught,
-freight (see
fraught n. 1,
freight n. 1)
= ship-hire;
† ship-governor = shipmaster;
† ship-gume = shipman;
ship-hearth (see
quot.);
† ship-hire [
cf. MDu. schiphure], the passage money for a sea-voyage;
ship-holder = ship-owner (Webster 1828–32);
† ship-hook, ? a grappling iron;
ship-joiner (see
quot. 1858);
ship-keeper, a man who takes care of a ship when the crew is absent from it;
ship-ladder, a ladder used in boarding or leaving a ship; also, a kind of embroidery stitch;
ship-lap, (
a) a form of joint in carpentry made by halving (see
quots. and
halving vbl. n.1 2 and
cf. half-lap and
lap-point s.v. lap n.3 2 b and 6); (
b) boards interlocked by rebates, used
esp. for cladding; so
ship-lapped ppl. a.,
ship-lapping (also
attrib.), and hence
ship-lap v., to furnish with joints of this kind;
ship-letter, a letter carried by a private vessel and not by the ordinary mail boat;
† ship-lord = ship-owner;
ship-mark, a postmark on a letter carried by a mail ship;
ship-mate, one who serves with another in the same ship; also in
phr. to be ship-mates with, to sail in the same vessel with; hence
transf., to be acquainted with, to have knowledge of (
colloq.); hence
shipmatish a.;
† ship news, (
a) news conveyed by ship; (
b) shipping news;
ship-papers, 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;
ship-pendulum, a pendulum with a graduated arc, used in the navy to ascertain the ‘heel’ of a vessel (Knight
Dict. Mech.);
ship plane, an aeroplane specially adapted for operating from an aircraft carrier;
ship-plate, an inferior grade of wrought iron plate;
† ship-privateer, a privateer commanded by a captain (
cf. ship-sloop);
† ship-rae Sc. [see
ra1 and
cf. MDu. schipra], a sailyard;
ship-railway, (
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;
† ship-rede Sc. [see
reid1], a roadstead;
† ship ren, a ship's course;
ship-rigged a., carrying square sails on all three masts;
† ship-road, (
a) a sea-voyage; (
b) a roadstead;
† ship-scot = ship-money;
ship-scraper, (
a) see
quot. 1875; (
b) one whose occupation it is to scrape the keels and decks of ships; an instrument used for this purpose;
shipside, (
a)
spec., the outside of the hull of a ship; (
b) the dock adjacent to a moored ship;
† ship sloop, a sloop of war commanded by a captain, and therefore having the rating of a ship;
ship('s) smith (see
quot. 1858);
ship-spy, a telescope used on the coast (Halliwell 1847);
ship('s) stores, (
a) provisions and supplies for use on board ship; (
b)
sing. (
U.S.) a shop on board ship;
ship-stuff, (
a) inferior wheat flour; (
b) material for the woodwork of a ship;
ship('s) time, (
a) the local mean time of the meridian where the ship is; (
b)
Canad. local, (the time of) the arrival of an annual supply ship;
† ship-tire, a head-dress shaped like a ship or having a ship-like ornament;
ship-to-air, used
attrib. to designate a missile fired from a ship at an aerial target;
† ship('s) toll, passage money, fare for a voyage;
ship-to-ship, used
attrib. to designate communications, missiles, etc., directed from one ship to another;
ship-to-shore, used
attrib. to designate communications, missiles, etc., directed from a ship to land; also
ellipt. as
n., a radio-telephone operating in this manner;
† ship-war, naval warfare;
shipway, (
a) a way or bed on which ships are built or laid for examination; (
b) a ship-canal;
ship-work, work at a ship or on board ship; ship-building, naval construction;
ship-worker, one who employs labourers to unload ships;
† ship-writ, a writ for ship-money.
| 1813 Examiner 8 Feb. 86/1 O. R. Read and Co...*ship-agents. |
| c 1450 in Aungier Syon (1840) 337 In festys clepyd Maius duplex ther schal be two sensours at euensonge and matyns, and a *schypberer. |
| 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 85 If ever he [a sea-cook] prays, it's in a Morning fasting, and that is to some Tag-rag, to fetch him a little *Ship-Beer. |
| 1799 Hull Advertiser 6 Apr. 1/1 The business of a *ship-biscuit baker. 1823 Adam Clarke in Life (1840) xi. 407 Always carry with you some hard or ship biscuit. 1855 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) xxxi. 603 The residents are then compelled to have recourse..to ship's biscuit. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 27 Twelve ordinary-sized ship's biscuits. |
| 1598 Florio, Pane biscotto, bisket bread, *ship-bread. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 310 No ship's bread was expended. 1856 Kane Arctic Expl. II. xvi. 169 The ship-bread was powdered by beating it with a capstan-bar. |
| 1663 Brief Acc. Turks Late Exped. 11 The River had torn their *Ship-bridges. |
| 1816 Sporting Mag. XLVII. 254 Mr. Wild, a *ship broker in the City. 1834 McCulloch Dict. Comm. (ed. 2) 188 A ship broker is not within the various acts for the regulation and admission of brokers. |
| 1886 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. (Cass.), The question of *ship-brokerage in France had formed the subject of frequent representations to the French government. |
| 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. |
| 1646 J. Hall Upon King's Gt. Porter 22 Wee'l weigh thee by *Ship⁓burdens not by th' stone. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-carver, one who carves figure-heads, and the work on the stern. |
| Ibid., *Ship-caulker, one whose business it is to stop, with oakum and pitch, the seams of ships' sides and decks. |
| 1494 in Somerset Med. 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 Archæol. Cant. VII. 285, j olde shyppe cheste without locke. |
| 1557 Will in Cullum Hist. Hawsted (1784) 126 One great *shipp cofer. |
| 1644 H. Manwayring Seaman's 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 in Godolphin's View Admir. Jurisd. App. 174 In the sight and presence of the Ship-Company. 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 56 To purchase Wine Abroad for the Service of the Ship's Company. 1891 Ship's company [see ship's writer, sense 9 c]. 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. |
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship-contractor, the charterer or freighter of a vessel. |
| 1929 W. A. Thorpe Hist. Eng. & Irish Glass II. Plate 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. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-deliverer, a person who contracts to unload a ship. |
| c 1320 Sir Tristr. 926 Bliþe was his bosking, And fair was his *schip fare. 1375 Barbour Bruce iii. 686 Till our-saile thaim in-to schipfair. Ibid. 692 Ankyrs, rapys..And all that nedyt to schipfar. 1648 Hexham ii, Schip-laon,..ship-hire, Ship-fraught, or Ship-fare. 1661 in Godolphin's View Admir. Jurisd. App. 176 The Master..ought to shew them [the company] their Ship-fare, which he may weigh out to each of them. |
| a 1122 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 999, Þæt man sceolde mid *scipfyrde & eac mid landfyrde him onᵹean faran. c 1205 Lay. 2156 Humber king & al his fleote & his muchele scip ferde. |
| 1758 J. Blake Mar. Syst. 49 One man labouring under what is called the *Ship Fever, or the Goal Distemper. 1868 Chamb. 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. |
| 1626 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 355/2 Instrumentum quo aqua salsa dulcis effecta est, quod πηγοναυτικον vulgo *schip-fontane appellatum est. |
| c 1375 *Schip fraucht [see fraught n. 1]. 1648 [see ship-fare above]. |
| 1552 *Ship freight [see ship-hire below]. |
| 1526 Tindale Rev. xviii. 17 Every *shippe governer, and all they that occupied shippes. |
| c 1205 Lay. 4560 Godlac sloh þa *scip-gumen [c 1275 sipmen]. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship-hearth Maker, a manufacturer of the cooking galleys or stoves used on shipboard. |
| 13.. Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 265 For his *schip huyre his wyf he heolde. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 446/2 Schyphyre, naulum. 1552 Huloet, Ship hire or freight, naulum. 1648 [see ship-fare above]. |
| 1633 Sir J. Burroughs Sov. Brit. Seas (1651) 114 With certaine *ship⁓hookes and other like Instruments [etc.]. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *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. |
| c 1517 in Archæologia XLVII. 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 Bef. Mast xxxvi, Not a soul was left on board the good ship Alert but the old ship⁓keeper. |
| c 1050 Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 182/10 Ponsis, *sciphlædder. 1611 Cotgr., Transpontin, a ship-ladder. c 1635 N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685). 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 187 To work Jacob or Ship Ladder. |
| 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants., *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. |
| 1887 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Mar. 432 It [our home] is ‘*ship-lapped’ and partially plastered. 1958 Archit. Rev. CXXIII. 327 (caption) Northern elevation with ship-lapped pine used as facing for the first floor. |
| 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. 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 Christy Joints made by Builders 103 Ship Lapping Joint. |
| c 1675 in J. W. Hyde Post in Grant (1894) 326 *Ship letter. 1817 Selwyn 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 Ibid. XLIX. 501 Above 1200 ship-letter mails are forwarded via Liverpool in the course of a year. 1849 Cupples Green Hand xxxii, My mother handed Jane a ship-letter. |
| c 1050 Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 181/21 Nauclerus, *sciphlaford. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 447/1 Schyplord,..navarchus. |
| 1801 S. & Ht. Lee Cant. T. IV. 456 The letter had no *ship-mark: I examined that of the post; it was from Hull. |
| 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. iii. 329 Our Commander and *Shipmates. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xiii, 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 Stevenson Treas. Isl. ii, ‘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. |
| 1893 W. C. Russell Emigr. Ship II. 84, ‘I respect your *shipmatish views’, said I. |
| 1712 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 723 This being only *ship news, little credit is given theretoo. 1761 Lond. Chron. July 2–4, 14/2 Ship News. Falmouth, June 29. Wind N. arrived the King George packet-boat, Bown, from Lisbon. |
| 1661 Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. 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. |
| 1919 in C. G. Grey All World's Aircraft i. 96a The Beardmore W.B. III. was evolved from the Sopwith ‘Pup’ in an effort to turn this machine into a *ship-plane. 1922 Flight XIV. 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. |
| 1873 R. Wilson Steam Boilers 32 The badly refined, coarse, brittle and uncertain material sometimes sold as *ship plate. 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 93 Ship Plate Maker. |
| 1799 Naval Chron. I. 529 A *ship privateer named La Zele, mounting 16 guns and 69 men. 1805 Nelson 23 July in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 486 A Ship-Privateer of twenty-two Guns. |
| 1595 Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Antenna, a *ship-rae. |
| 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. |
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 127 Quha is ouir Haevinis and *schipredes thay cal Admiral. |
| 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 341 So þat toward þe west þe *ssiprene [v.r. schipreone] drou. |
| 1844 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 189/2 The vessel was *ship-rigged. |
| a 1400 New Test. (Paues) Acts xxvii. 10, I see þat wiþ iniurye ande myche harme..bigynnes oure *schiprode to be. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 422 To assume unto it the name of a ship-Rode, or Haven. |
| 1640 [H. Parker] Case of 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. |
| 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *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. |
| 1439 in Archæologia (1827) XXI. 37 Men of arms, feyghtyng upon the *shippe syde. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 112, I would you had beene by the ship side, to haue help'd her. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 11 Near the Ship Side. 1887 Morris Odyss. x. 172, 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 1968–69 83/3 General cargo facilities..have two shipside tracks. 1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats & Boating 93 Most sports fishermen therefore incorporate a section of the cockpit coamings, shipside, or transom which can be removed to help loading. |
| 1867 Smyth 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. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *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. |
| 1785 Daily Universal Register 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 Thackeray Van. Fair lvii, 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. |
| 1793 Washington Lett. Writ. 1891 XII. 382 The middlings and *ship stuff may be sold to answer the money calls which you will have upon you. 1884 Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 511 Saw oak for shipstuff. |
| 1771 A. Graham Observations on Hudson's Bay (1969) ix. 282 How affairs went on last *shiptime I know not. 1869 ‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. v. 47 Young Mr. Blucher..was a good deal worried by the constantly changing ‘ship time’. 1891 Patterson 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. |
| 1598 Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 60 The right arched-beauty of the brow, that becomes the *Ship-tyre..or any Tire of Venetian admittance. |
| 1957 Times Survey 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. |
| c 1050 Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 182/13 Naulum, *sciptol. c 1475 Pict. Voc. ibid. 805/4 Hoc naulum, a schyppes tolle. 1648 Hexham ii, Schip-tol, Ship-toll, or Custome. |
| 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 XXXII. 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. |
| 1923 Monthly Weather Rev. LI. 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. |
| 1408 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 223/2 Þe lawes or hestes of *schep werre. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 447/1 Schyppe werre, naumachia. |
| 1834 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 343 note, Constructing buildings for the accommodation of officers of the yards, in storehouses,..and *shipways. 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. 1884 Manch. Exam. 15 Aug. 4/8 The construction of a ship-way from Manchester to the sea. |
| 1408–9 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 224/1 To hewe tymbre as grete bemes for *schip werk. 1503 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. 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. |
| 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 36 Dock Service:..*Shipworker. 1891 Daily News 9 Feb. 3/2 The shipworkers and quay foremen. |
| 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. 1654 H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 140 The Ship⁓writs having been issued out August the 11. 1635. a 1754 Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 253 The council who had..just before the relation issued ship-writs to the inland. |
b. In the names of animals:
ship-borer = ship-worm;
† ship-halter, the sucking-fish
= remora 1; so
ship-holder;
† ship-nut (see
quot.);
ship-rat, a variety of rat found on board ship;
ship-stayer, a fish of the family
Echeneididæ;
ship-worm, any of the worm-shaped mollusks of the genus
Teredo and allied genera,
esp. T. navalis.
| 1668 Charleton Onomast. 125 Remora..the Remora, or *Ship-halter. |
| 1860 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. |
| 1729 W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 420 *Ship-Nuts. Are hard Shells, which commonly adhere to Ships like the Barnacles. |
| 1860 Wynter Cur. Civilis. 132 The *ship-rat must not be confounded with the water-rat, which is an entirely different species. 1890 Stevenson in G. Balfour Life (1911) 222 The ship-rats which infest the shores and invade the houses. |
| 1778 Da Costa Brit. Conchol. 21 S[erpula] Teredo. The *Ship Worm. 1783 Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies VI. 149 The ship-worm is more apt to injure the vessel in this place than in other parts. 1879 E. P. Wright Anim. Life 562 Teredidæ, or Ship-worms. |
c. Combinations with
ship's (many of which have alternative forms in 8 a; see also 9 a), as
ship's anchor,
ship's apparel,
† ship's castle,
ship's cook,
ship's doctor,
ship's log,
ship's pump,
ship's timepiece,
ship's writer,
ship's yeoman;
ship's articles, the terms according to which seamen take service on board ship;
ship's cousin,
app. humorously modelled on
ship's husband;
ship's days, the days allowed for loading and unloading a ship (
Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895);
ship's husband (see
husband n. 4 b);
ship's protest (see
protest n. 3);
ship's registry (see
quot.);
ship's time, the local mean time of the meridian where the ship is.
| 1647 Hexham i, A ships anker, Een schips anker. |
| 1755 N. Magens Insurances II. 278 The *Ship's Apparel, as Boats, Anchors, Sails, Cordage. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *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. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Ship's-block Maker, a manufacturer of large blocks for ship's use. |
| 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 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. |
| 1638 Junius Paint. Ancients 155 The *ships-castle behinde was most commonly adorned with the picture of one or other God. |
| 1834 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 344 *Ship's Corporal... *Ship's Cook. |
| 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast viii, However useful and active you may be, you are but a mongrel,—a sort of afterguard and ‘*ship's cousin’. |
| 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 13 The wretched *Ship's Crew..get scarce the very Husk, whilst he [the captain] runs away with the Flower of the Cargo. |
| Ibid. 73 He cannot but pity 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. |
| 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 405/1 Parts of *ship's furniture. |
| 1835 Tomlins' Law-Dict. s.v. Ship's Papers, The Log Book, or *Ship's Journal. |
| 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 47 *Ship's Log Maker. |
| 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Jan. 5/2 That comparatively small but highly important section of our sailors generally described as ‘*ships' officers’. |
| 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 194 *Ship's protest, which should be compared with the log-book, and certified by the agent. |
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., *Ship's Pump, a suction-pump for freeing a ship's hold from water. |
| 1644 H. Manwayring Seaman's 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. |
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Ship's registry and certificate, an official record of a ship's size, the bills of lading, ownership, &c. |
| Ibid., *Ship's steward, the person who manages the victualling or mess departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward. |
| 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 240 A *Ship's Time⁓piece has usually a lever escapement. |
| 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 Patterson 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. |
| 1850 *Ship's yeoman [see yeoman 2 c]. |
| 1891 Patterson Naut. Dict. 356 Equipment Yeoman, formerly called ship's yeoman. |
▪ II. ship, n.2 Printing.
A colloquial abbreviation of
companionship 3.
| 1875 Southward Dict. Typogr. 18 The best ‘ship’ is kept going with work from the others, rather than be suffered to stand still. 1882 ― Pract. Printing (1884) 221 The chief of the companionship or ‘ship’..receives the copies from the overseer. |
▪ III. ship, v. (
ʃɪp)
Forms: 1
scipian,
scypian, 3–5
schype, (3
ssipe), 4–5
schipe,
schepe, 4–6
schippe,
schyppe, 4–7
shipe,
shippe,
shyppe, (5
shipp), 6–7
schip, 6–
ship.
[late OE. scipian, f. scip ship n.1; cf. MLG. schêpen, (M)Du. schepen, MHG., G. schiffen, ON. skipa. In the later senses a new formation directly f. ship n.1] † 1. a. pass. To be furnished with a ship or ships.
| c 900 O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 893, Se micla here..wurdon ᵹescipode. 1594 Kyd Cornelia v. 298 Seeing himselfe at anchor, slightly shipt, Besieg'd, betraide by winde. 1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 47 Mon. Is he well ship'd? Cassio. His Barke is stoutly Timber'd. 1647 Hexham i, Shiped, Gescheept. |
† b. refl. To provide oneself with a ship.
Obs.—1| 1627 Capt. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 55 Euery horseman cannot mount himself alike, neither euery Seaman ship himselfe as he would. |
† 2. To equip or launch (a vessel).
Obs.| Cf. 1224–5 Foreign Acc., L.T.R. No. 1 Municione et Schippatione nauium et galiarum. |
| 1052 O.E. Chron. (MS. C), Þa let Eadward cyng scypian .xl. snacca. c 1500 Melusine 118 He..made fourthwith a galyotte to be shipped redy. Ibid. 268 Go make a galyot to be shipped redy with ten oores. |
3. 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.
| 13.. K. Alis. 6062 He schipeth heom in schipes cayvars, In dromondes, and in lumbars. 1425 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 276/1 The said Merchantz Englissh, that shippen, or shall shippe any Merchandise. 1465 Paston Lett. Suppl. 93 To remember that Guton malt must be shipped at Blakeney. 1513 Pace in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 179 An army..whiche he affirmith to be nowe schippidde redy to passe the see. 1517 R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 67 We shippyd our horses at Caleys. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis i. 11 Pigmalions riches was shipt. 1640 Yorke Union Hon. 100 King Henry the fifth, was shipping his men for France. 1689 Lond. Gaz. No. 2486/3 The Lord Hewit's Regiment of Horse will be shipped to morrow. 1748 Anson's Voy. ii. xiii. 271 He was shipped on board a vessel bound to Old Spain. 1818 Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. 216, I rather fear that a quantity of game which was shipped awhile ago at Inverness for the Doctor, never reached him. 1866 Crump Banking vi. 139 Upon a cargo being shipped, bills of lading..are filled up with the name of the shipper. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 41 §17 Any harbour or any works in or at which vessels can..ship or unship goods or passengers. |
| fig. 1602 Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 16 After long travaile through the Asian maine, I shipt my hopefull thoughts for Brittany. |
| absol. 1479 Cely Papers (Camden) 18, I wyll nat schepe tyll I have my money hom in lecters of payment. 1482 Ibid. 104 Syr thay hawhe begwn to schype at London. 1530 Palsgr. 703/2 We can nat go hence yet, we have nat all shypped. |
b. said of the ship.
| 1800 Colquhoun Comm. Thames xiii. 374 All vessels shall ship or take in all their cargoes..below the Canal at Blackwall. 1882 ‘Ouida’ Maremma ii, A little vessel was shipping grain. |
† 4. a. pass. Of a person: To have gone on board, to be embarked.
Obs.| c 1300 Prose Life St. Brandan (Percy) 37 Whan they were all shypped, sodeynly this yonge man vanysshed away. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 387 Thei are schepped now eche a wyght. a 1450 Lovelich Grail lvi. 114 Thike same Nyht..that In to the See I-scheped they were. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. i. i. 73 Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already. a 1592 Greene Jas. IV, i. i, My royal father is both shipp'd and gone. 1617 Moryson Itin. ii. 203 We heard that all the Spaniards..were shipped. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. (1626) 120 As soone as shipt; as soone as actiue ores Had mou'd the surges. |
Proverb.
| 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent 209 Least otherwise the Reader..might be shipped in the boate of this errour. 1575–85 Abp. Sandys Serm. xix. 334 This is the way wherein Christ must bee followed by as manie as desire to be shipped with him, to bee of the number of his people. 1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton (1906) 8 He that is shipped with the devil must sail with the devil. |
b. refl. To go on board ship, embark. Also with
off (
cf. 7 b).
Obs. or
arch.| c 1400 Destr. Troy 1783 Antenor..Shippit hym full shortly & his shene folke. 1600 R. Carr tr. Mahumetan Hist. 62 b, 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. a 1647 Pette in Archæologia XII. 219, I was constrained to ship myself to sea upon a desperate voyage. 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 505 They shipp'd themselves to serve in the Ship. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. III. lii. 129 The Puritans, restrained in England, shipped themselves off for America. 1831 Scott Cast Dang. xx, It was thought that the waves had swallowed them when they shipped themselves from the west. |
5. intr. To go on board ship, embark. Now
rare.
| a 1122 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1091 Se eorl..on Wiht scipode & into Normandiᵹ for. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. 467/179 Huy schypeden in þe salte se. c 1300 K. Horn 1013 (Laud MS.) Þe page was blyþe And schepede wel swyþe. 1375 Barbour Bruce iii. 575 Then schippyt thai, for-owtyn mar. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 28 Þer er many hauens for to schippe at. c 1468 in Archæologia (1846) XXXI. 327 The Fryedaye next after the Nativite of Sainct John Baptist, she shippid at Margate. 1517 R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 1, I shipped at Rye, in Sussex. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 378 Quhen at Leith tha had shipit in. 1599 Dekker Shoemakers Hol. (1610) B 2 Tis his highnesse will, That presently your cosen shippe for France With all his powers. 1690 Lond. 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. a. To go by ship
to,
into, or
from a place. Now chiefly
U.S. Cf. sense 6 c below.
| 13.. Metr. Hom. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 265 Faste he drouh toward þe se For schipen he wolde to oþur þede. 1382 Wyclif Acts xx. 6 We schipiden aftir dayes of therf looues fro Philippis. c 1400 Rowland & O. 742 Þay Schipped ouer at Vertely In to þe landes of lumbardy. 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 1, I determyned me to take that voyage and shipped from Southampton. 1535 Coverdale Matt. xiv. 34 They shipped ouer, & came in to the londe of Genazereth. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 247 The Emperour, speedily shipped ouer into Asia. 1654 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. |
† b. To sail
about.
Obs.| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 95 He hadde schipped aboute Est Engelonde [circumnavigata Estanglia]. c 1450 Mirk's Festial 260 As I was schyppyng yn þe see, I come to an yle. |
c. U.S. Mil. slang.
to ship out: to depart, to be transported; also
fig. (
cf. shape up or ship out s.v. shape v. 19 e);
to ship over: to re-enlist, to volunteer for a tour of duty.
| 1908 L. G. Tisdale Three Years behind Guns xxiii. 259 Do you want to ship over? 1924 Anderson & 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 [see cash v.2 2 b]. 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. trans. To send or transport by ship.
† to ship out: to export.
| 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. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iv. i. 30 The Sun no sooner shall the Mountaines touch, But we will ship him hence. 1656 Tucker Rep. Revenues Scot. (Bannatyne Club) 26 South Barwick, where the Scots and English both did usually shippe out Skyns, Hides, Wooll. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 39 One half of the Produce being to himself, and the other to be shipp'd to England. 1725 Pope Odyss. xv. 419 Rude pirates seized, and shipped thee o'er the main. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. i, The third [son] was a Roué, and was shipped to the Colonies. 1861 Goschen For. Exch. 127 To ship the silver to England. 1892 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.
| 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties & Forfeitures, If any Wharfinger..shall..Ship off..any Wares..at any unlawful time. 1706 Lond. Gaz. No. 4239/1 They Shipt off 900 of their sick and wounded Men. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v., The inhabitants ship off yearly..seven or eight thousand chaldrons of coal. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 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. transf. To transport (goods) by rail or other means of conveyance.
U.S.| 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. 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. |
d. fig. To send
off, send packing, get rid of, dismiss, expel.
| 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 206 Andronicus, would thou were shipt to hell. 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. 1857 Trollope Three Clerks xviii, Old Foolscap says he'll ship me the next time I'm absent half-an-hour without leave. |
e. intr. Of perishable goods: to admit of being transported.
| 1867 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. VII. 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.
| 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 13 In this Encounter we shipped many a perilous Sea. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 9 Our Ship rid Forecastle in, shipp'd several Seas. a 1734 North Life Dudley North (1744) 15 We shipt Seas over our Poop. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. v. 342 Baling out the water which she accidentally ships. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xx. (1856) 153 Driving before the wind, shipping seas at every roll. 1883 Stevenson Treas. Isl. xvii, 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.
| 1630 in Binnell Descr. Thames (1758) 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 XXIV. 257/2 As we shipped up our rod the natives began to assemble. 1898 W. W. Jacobs 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. 1 and
unship v.). (See also
quot. 1898.) Also
absol. as a command
= ‘ship oars!’
For another sense of ‘ship oars’ see 10.
| 1700 Dryden Ceyx & Alc. 92 The Sailors ship their Oars, and cease to row. 1725 Pope Odyss. ii. 470 And now they ship their oars, and crown with wine The holy goblet to the powers divine. 1857 P. Colquhoun Comp. ‘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 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. ii, The stranger came to the bank, shipped his sculls, and jumped out. 1894 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 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. orig. and
esp. Naut. 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.
| 1616 Chapman Musæus 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 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v., 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 Nicolas Disp. (1845) III. 53 He had a new rudder made upon his own deck, which was immediately shipped. 1833 C. Sturt Exped. S. Austral. II. 166 Seven or eight [natives]..crept into the reeds, with their spears shipped to throw at us. 1834 L. Ritchie Wand. Seine 33 Shipping a single oar in the stern, [he] began to scull out with all his might. 1837 Marryat Snarleyyow xlvii, The skylight was shipped on again. 1845 J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific vii. 71 Which mast and sail are..never shipped until required. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man (1862) 195 No. 3..ships and unships the handspike. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., Ship capstan-bars. 1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan., A hole big enough to ship the mainmast in. |
b. intr. (for pass.). To admit of being placed in position; to have a certain position in a contrivance.
| 1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 80 [The pan] is made to ship and unship. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. 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).
| 1829 Maw Jrnl. Pass. Pacific 16 Their regard for new and gay shoes, of which they ‘ship’ a new pair every Sunday morning. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son lxiv, He..took off his white jacket, and shipped a blue one. 1834 Marryat Peter Simple xli, I had shipped the swab... I'm lieutenant. 1851 H. Melville Moby Dick I. xxxiii. 236 He pauses, ships a new face altogether. 1910 Blackw. 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.
colloq.| 1915 H. Rosher In R.N.A.S. (1916) 38, I see in this morning's paper that I have shipped another stripe (Flight Lieutenant). 1924 Blackw. 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. trans. To engage for service on a ship.
| 1643 Decl. Commons (Reb. Ireland) 50 He..was shipped..to serve in the said Frigot. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 150, I was Shipt Mate of the Sloop that came from Malacca with us. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 15 It was my great Misfortune, that in all these Adventures I did not ship myself as a Sailor. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xiv, Instead of shipping some hands to make our work easier. |
b. intr. To engage to serve on a ship.
| 1829 Marryat F. Mildmay xxi, We never ask questions when a seaman ships for us. 1845 J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific xi. 145 One of the Spaniards shipped on board as an ordinary seaman. 1891 Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 27 As soon as the money's gone they'll ship, but not before. |
▪ IV. ship, shippe var. ff.
chip n.2, share-beam.
| 1607 J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 115 Next to the Share, is the Shippe. Ibid., The Ship is not only that peece which holdeth the Share, but is placed beneath next the earth. |