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ship-fever

ship-fever is the alternative form of ship fever.

Meaning of ship fever

Noun

ship fever (uncountable)

  1. A form of typhus fever.
    • "No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill."1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

Questions about ship-fever

What is ship-fever the alternative form of?
Ship-fever is the alternative form of ship fever.

Words near ship-fever in the dictionary

  1. ship-breaker
  2. ship-builder
  3. ship-builders
  4. ship-building
  5. ship-buildings
  6. ship-fever
  7. ship-jumper
  8. ship-jumpers
  9. ship-man
  10. ship-men
  11. ship-of-the-line

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