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taken shipping

taken shipping is the past participle of take shipping.

Meaning of take shipping

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

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What is taken shipping the past participle of?
Taken shipping is the past participle of take shipping.

Words near taken shipping in the dictionary

  1. taken root
  2. taken serious
  3. taken seriously
  4. taken shape
  5. taken ship
  6. taken shipping
  7. taken short
  8. taken sides
  9. taken silk
  10. taken slave
  11. taken soil

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