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disshipping

disshipping is the present participle and gerund of disship.

Meaning of disship

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

Questions about disshipping

What is disshipping the present participle and gerund of?
Disshipping is the present participle and gerund of disship.

Words near disshipping in the dictionary

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

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