shipt

Verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

1. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
   • All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium.1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Solyman, the Fourth and Most Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes”, in The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 670
2. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
   • to ship freight by railroad
3. (ergative) To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
   • Our next issue ships early next year.
4. (ergative) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
   • to ship seamen
5. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
   • I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 563”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a...
6. (transitive) To put or secure in its place.
   • to ship the tiller or rudder

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