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disship

/dɪsˈʃɪp/

disship verb: to dismiss from service on board ship.

Verb

disship (third-person singular simple present disships, present participle disshipping, simple past and past participle disshipped)

  1. (obsolete) To dismiss from service on board ship.
    • the Captaine by discretion shall from time to time disship any artificer or English servingman or apprentice out of the Primrose into any of the other three ships1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Forms of disship

third-person singular presentdisships
present participledisshipping
past participledisshipped
pastdisshipped

Origin of disship

From dis- + ship.

Questions about disship

What does disship mean?
Disship means to dismiss from service on board ship.
What part of speech is disship?
Disship is a verb.
How do you pronounce disship?
Disship is pronounced /dɪsˈʃɪp/.
What is the past tense of disship?
The past tense of disship is disshipped.

Words near disship in the dictionary

  1. dissful
  2. dissheathe
  3. dissheathed
  4. dissheathes
  5. dissheathing
  6. disship
  7. disshipped
  8. disshipping
  9. disships
  10. disshiver
  11. disshivered

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