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Meaning of SHIP in English

A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.

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    Meaning of SHIP in English

    • A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
    • Pay; reward.
    • Any large seagoing vessel.
    • 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.
    • A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
    • To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
    • By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
    • Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
    • To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
    • To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
    • To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
    • To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
    • To embark on a ship.

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