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ship's days

ship's days noun: the days allowed for a vessel to load or unload.

Noun

ship's days pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) The days allowed for a vessel to load or unload.
    • As a general rule, i.e., in the absence of a custom of the Port, or a stipulation to the contrary, "lay-days" mean "running days," and include Sundays and fixed holidays; one exception being where the ship has reported too late for the Merchant to begin discharging in fair time on Saturday, in...1871, Alfred Henry Alston, Robert Hastings Harris, Seamanship, page 533
    • The bye-law in the harbour (at Boulogne) stipulates that a ship's days do not count until 24 hours after she gets a quay berth.1881, William Mitchell, Maritime Notes and Queries: A Record of Shipping Law and Usage, page 32
  2. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ship, day.

Questions about ship's days

What does ship's days mean?
Ship's days means the days allowed for a vessel to load or unload.
What part of speech is ship's days?
Ship's days is a noun.

Words near ship's days in the dictionary

  1. ship's carvers
  2. ship's company
  3. ship's corporal
  4. ship's cousin
  5. ship's cousins
  6. ship's days
  7. ship's husband
  8. ship's wheel
  9. ship's wheels
  10. ship, shipmate, self
  11. ship-breaker

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