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take shipping

take shipping verb: to embark on a ship.

Verb

take shipping (third-person singular simple present takes shipping, present participle taking shipping, simple past took shipping, past participle taken shipping)

  1. (archaic) To embark on a ship.
    • […] dyuerse noble men of the land, which helde against those statutes, were ridden toward Douer, and there entended to haue taken shipping for feare of the Barons1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, London: Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye, “Henrie the thirde,” p. 140
    • […] at last, finding that those who marched through the continent met with an ocean of miserie, he thought better to trust the wind and sea then the Greeks; and taking shipping safely arrived in Palestine […]1639, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War, Cambridge: Thomas Buck, Book 2, Chapter 28, p. 80

Forms of take shipping

third-person singular presenttakes shipping
present participletaking shipping
pasttook shipping
past participletaken shipping

Questions about take shipping

What does take shipping mean?
Take shipping means to embark on a ship.
What part of speech is take shipping?
Take shipping is a verb.
What is the past tense of take shipping?
The past tense of take shipping is took shipping.

Words near take shipping in the dictionary

  1. take serious
  2. take seriously
  3. take several seats
  4. take shape
  5. take ship
  6. take shipping
  7. take sick
  8. take sides
  9. take sign
  10. take signs
  11. take silk

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