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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -ship \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
     OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
     n., and {Landscape}.]
     A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
     as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
     horsemanship.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ship \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
     Pay; reward. [Obs.]
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           In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
           the wages of servants.                   --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ship \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
     skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
     Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
     {Equip}, {Skiff}, {Skipper}.]
     1. Any large seagoing vessel.
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              Like a stately ship . . .
              With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,
              Sails filled, and streamers waving.   --Milton.
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              Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!  --Longfellow.
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     2. 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.
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        [1913 Webster] l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side;
        1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel;
        5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9
        Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13
        Main Hatchway; 14 Windlass; 15 Foremast; 16 Fore Hatchway;
        17 Bitts; 18 Bowsprit; 19 Head Rail; 20 Boomkins; 21
        Catheads on Port Bow and Starboard Bow; 22 Fore Chains; 23
        Main Chains; 24 Mizzen Chains; 25 Stern.
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        [1913 Webster] 1 Fore Royal Stay; 2 Flying Jib Stay; 3
        Fore Topgallant Stay;4 Jib Stay; 5 Fore Topmast Stays; 6
        Fore Tacks; 8 Flying Martingale; 9 Martingale Stay,
        shackled to Dolphin Striker; 10 Jib Guys; 11 Jumper Guys;
        12 Back Ropes; 13 Robstays; 14 Flying Jib Boom; 15 Flying
        Jib Footropes; 16 Jib Boom; 17 Jib Foottropes; 18
        Bowsprit; 19 Fore Truck; 20 Fore Royal Mast; 21 Fore Royal
        Lift; 22 Fore Royal Yard; 23 Fore Royal Backstays; 24 Fore
        Royal Braces; 25 Fore Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 26 Fore
        Topgallant Lift; 27 Fore Topgallant Yard; 28 Fore
        Topgallant Backstays; 29 Fore Topgallant Braces; 30 Fore
        Topmast and Rigging; 31 Fore Topsail Lift; 32 Fore Topsail
        Yard; 33 Fore Topsail Footropes; 34 Fore Topsail Braces;
        35 Fore Yard; 36 Fore Brace; 37 Fore Lift; 38 Fore Gaff;
        39 Fore Trysail Vangs; 40 Fore Topmast Studding-sail Boom;
        41 Foremast and Rigging; 42 Fore Topmast Backstays; 43
        Fore Sheets; 44 Main Truck and Pennant; 45 Main Royal Mast
        and Backstay; 46 Main Royal Stay; 47 Main Royal Lift; 48
        Main Royal Yard; 49 Main Royal Braces; 50 Main Topgallant
        Mast and Rigging; 51 Main Topgallant Lift; 52 Main
        Topgallant Backstays; 53 Main Topgallant Yard; 54 Main
        Topgallant Stay; 55 Main Topgallant Braces; 56 Main
        Topmast and Rigging; 57 Topsail Lift; 58 Topsail Yard; 59
        Topsail Footropes; 60 Topsail Braces; 61 Topmast Stays; 62
        Main Topgallant Studding-sail Boom; 63 Main Topmast
        Backstay; 64 Main Yard; 65 Main Footropes; 66 Mainmast and
        Rigging; 67 Main Lift; 68 Main Braces; 69 Main Tacks; 70
        Main Sheets; 71 Main Trysail Gaff; 72 Main Trysail Vangs;
        73 Main Stays; 74 Mizzen Truck; 75 Mizzen Royal Mast and
        Rigging; 76 Mizzen Royal Stay; 77 Mizzen Royal Lift; 78
        Mizzen Royal Yard; 79 Mizzen Royal Braces; 80 Mizzen
        Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 81 Mizzen Topgallant Lift; 82
        Mizzen Topgallant Backstays; 83 Mizzen Topgallant Braces;
        84 Mizzen Topgallant Yard; 85 Mizzen Topgallant Stay; 86
        Mizzen Topmast and Rigging; 87 Mizzen Topmast Stay; 88
        Mizzen Topsail Lift; 89 Mizzen Topmast Backstays; 90
        Mizzen Topsail Braces; 91 Mizzen Topsail Yard; 92 Mizzen
        Topsail Footropes; 93 Crossjack Yard; 94 Crossjack
        Footropes; 95 Crossjack Lift; 96 Crossjack Braces; 97
        Mizzenmast and Rigging; 98 Mizzen Stay; 99 Spanker Gaff;
        100 Peak Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom;
        103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or
        Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107
        Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110
        Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.
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     3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a
        ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] --Tyndale.
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     {Armed ship}, a private ship taken into the service of the
        government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a
        ship of war. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
  
     {General ship}. See under {General}.
  
     {Ship biscuit}, hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard;
        -- called also {ship bread}. See {Hardtack}.
  
     {Ship boy}, a boy who serves in a ship. "Seal up the ship
        boy's eyes." --Shak.
  
     {Ship breaker}, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for
        further use.
  
     {Ship broker}, a mercantile agent employed in buying and
        selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in
        transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port.
        
  
     {Ship canal}, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing
        vessels.
  
     {Ship carpenter}, a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a
        shipwright.
  
     {Ship chandler}, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other,
        furniture of vessels.
  
     {Ship chandlery}, the commodities in which a ship chandler
        deals; also, the business of a ship chandler.
  
     {Ship fever} (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also
        {putrid fever}, {jail fever}, or {hospital fever}.
  
     {Ship joiner}, a joiner who works upon ships.
  
     {Ship letter}, a letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet.
        
  
     {Ship money} (Eng. Hist.), an imposition formerly charged on
        the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of
        England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for
        the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I. to
        revive and enforce this tax was resisted by John Hampden,
        and was one of the causes which led to the death of
        Charles. It was finally abolished.
  
     {Ship of the line}. See under {Line}.
  
     {Ship pendulum}, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent
        of the rolling and pitching of a vessel.
  
     {Ship railway}.
        (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of
            which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for
            repairs.
        (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels
            overland between two water courses or harbors.
  
     {Ship's company}, the crew of a ship or other vessel.
  
     {Ship's days}, the days allowed a vessel for loading or
        unloading.
  
     {Ship's husband}. See under {Husband}.
  
     {Ship's papers} (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is
        required by law to be provided, and the production of
        which may be required on certain occasions. Among these
        papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter
        party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll,
        bill of health, etc. --Bouvier. --Kent.
  
     {To make ship}, to embark in a ship or other vessel.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ship \Ship\, v. i.
     1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
        man-of-war.
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     2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ship \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Shipping}.]
     1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
        transportation; to send by water.
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              The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
              from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
                                                    --Knolles.
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     2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
        conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
        freight by railroad.
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     3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
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     4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
        ship seamen.
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     5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
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     6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ship
       n : a vessel that carries passengers or freight
       v 1: transport commercially [syn: {transport}, {send}]
       2: hire for work on a ship
       3: go on board [syn: {embark}] [ant: {disembark}]
       4: travel by ship
       5: place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the
          vessel"
       [also: {shipping}, {shipped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  262 Moby Thesaurus words for "ship":
     Graf Zeppelin, address, aeroplane, aerostat, air-express, aircraft,
     airfreight, airmail, airplane, airship, argosy, ark, avion, back,
     bag, balance rudder, ballonet, balloon, barge, barrel, bathyscaphe,
     batten, beak, beakhead, beam, bilge keelson, bitt, blimp, board,
     boat, bollard, bollard timber, bottle, bow, box, bracket plate,
     bridge, bulkhead, bulwarks, burden, bus, cam cleat, can, capstan,
     caravel, cargo ship, carling, carry, cart, casemate, cathead,
     ceiling, centerboard, cleat, coach, coast guard cutter, coaster,
     collier, companion, companionway, conning tower, consign, counter,
     crate, cutter, cutwater, daggerboard, davit, deadwood, deliver,
     depart, derelict, direct, dirigible, dirigible balloon, dislocate,
     dispatch, disturb, dray, dredge, drop a letter, embark, entrance,
     expedite, export, express, fantail, ferry, figurehead, fill,
     fishing boat, float, flying machine, forefoot, foresheets, foretop,
     forward, frame, freeboard, freight, freighter, futtock, gangplank,
     gangway, garboard strake, gasbag, get out, gudgeon, gunnel,
     gunwale, hatch, hatchway, haul, hawse, hawse timber, hawsehole,
     hawsepiece, hawsepipe, head, heap, heap up, heavier-than-air craft,
     heel, hydrofoil, icebreaker, island, keel, keel and keelson,
     keelson, kevel, kite, knee, lade, larboard, lash, leave, lee,
     lee side, leeward, lighter, lighter-than-air craft, lightship,
     liner, load, mail, maintop, mass, merchant ship, merchantman,
     mizzentop, move, nose, ocean liner, oiler, pack, pack away, packet,
     packet boat, paddle steamer, paddle wheel, picket ship, pile,
     pintle, plane, planking, pocket, poop, port, porthole, portside,
     post, propeller, prow, pulpit, quit, raft, rail,
     refrigeration ship, remit, remove, revenue cutter, rib,
     rigid airship, rotor, rotor ship, route, rubrail, rudder,
     rudderpost, rudderstock, run, sack, scram, screw steamer, scupper,
     scuttle, scuttlebutt, self-propelled barge, semirigid airship,
     send, send away, send forth, send off, set sail, shaft tunnel,
     sheave hole, sheer strake, sheets, shelf, shelfpiece, shift,
     ship out, side-wheeler, skeg, slaver, sled, sledge, snorkel,
     spar-decker, stack, stanchion, starboard, steam schooner,
     steam yacht, steamer, stem, stern, stern-wheeler, store, storeship,
     stow, strake, superstructure, tail end, take off, tanker, tender,
     tiller, tramp steamer, transfer, transmit, transom, transport,
     trawler, truck, turbine, van, vessel, wagon, waterline, waterway,
     weather, weather ship, weather side, weatherboard, whaler, wheel,
     wheelbarrow, winch, windlass, windward, zeppelin
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SHIP. This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in 
  navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's husband, 
  shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a 
  brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel. 
       2. In a more confined sense, it means such a vessel with three masts 4 
  Wash. C. C. Rep. 530; Wesk. Inst. h.t. p. 514 the boats and rigging; 2 
  Marsh. Ins. 727 together with the anchors, masts, cables, pullies, and such 
  like objects, are considered as part of the ship. Pard. n. 599; Dig. 22, 2, 
  44. 
       3. The capacity of a ship is ascertained by its tonnage, or the space 
  which may be occupied by its cargo. Vide Story's Laws U. S. Index, h.t.; 
  Gordon's Dig. h.t.; Abbott on Ship. Index, h.t.; Park. Ins. Index, h.t.; 
  Phil. Ev. Index, h.t. Bac. Ab. Merchant, N; 3 Kent, Com. 93 Molloy, Jure 
  Mar. Index, h.t.; l Chit. Pr. 91; Whart. Dig. h.t.; 1 Bell's Com. 496, 624; 
  and see General Ships; Names of Ships. 
  
  

















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