ʃɪp n. & v. --n. 1 a
any large seagoing vessel (cf. BOAT). b a sailing-vessel
with a
bowsprit and three,
four, or
five square-rigged masts. 2 US an
aircraft. 3 a
spaceship. 4 colloq. a
boat,
esp. a racing-boat. --v. (shipped, shipping) 1 tr. put,
take, or
send away (goods, passengers, sailors, etc.) on
board ship. 2 tr. a take in (water)
over the side of a ship, boat, etc. b take (oars)
from the rowlocks and lay
them inside a boat. c
fix (a
rudder etc.) in
its place on a ship etc. d
step (a mast). 3 intr. a take ship;
embark. b (of a sailor) take service on a ship (shipped
for Africa). 4 tr.
deliver (goods) to a forwarding
agent for
conveyance. øship-breaker a
contractor who breaks up
old ships. ship-broker an agent in
shipping goods and insuring ships. ship
burial Archaeol. burial in a
wooden ship
under a mound. ship-canal a
canal large
enough for ships to pass
inland. ship (or ship's)
chandler see CHANDLER. ship-fever
typhus. ship-money
hist. a
tax raised to
provide ships for the
navy in the 17th c. ship of the desert the
camel. ship
off 1 send or
transport by ship. 2 colloq. send (a person) away. ship of the line hist. a large
battleship fighting in the
front line of
battle. ship-rigged square-rigged. ship's articles the terms on
which seamen take service on a ship. ship's
biscuit hist. a
hard coarse kind of biscuit
kept and eaten on board ship. ship's boat a
small boat carried on board a ship. ship's
company a ship's crew. ship's corporal see
CORPORAL(1) 2. ship a
sea be flooded by a
wave. ship's
husband an agent appointed by the owners to see to the provisioning of a ship in
port. ship's papers documents establishing the ownership,
nationality,
nature of the
cargo,
etc., of a ship. take ship embark.
when a person's ship comes
home (or in) when a person's
fortune is
made. øøshipless adj. shippable adj. [OE scip, scipian f. Gmc]
