Ship : (noun)
1: a vessel that carries passengers or freight
(verb)
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"
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-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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Ship : \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
Pay; reward. [Obs.]
In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
the wages of servants. --Chaucer.
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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.
Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
--Milton.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! --Longfellow.
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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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.
The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
--Knolles.
2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
freight by railroad.
3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
ship seamen.
5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
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Ship : \Ship\, v. i.
1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
man-of-war.
2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the
same source as E. pack. See Pack.]
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
packet of letters. --Shak.
2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
days of sailing; a mail boat.
Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2.
Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
the sailing day.
Packet note or post. See under Paper.
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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 aShip : 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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