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takes shipping

takes shipping is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 takes shipping the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Takes shipping is the third-person singular simple present indicative of take shipping.

Words near takes shipping in the dictionary

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

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