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taking shipping

taking shipping is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about taking shipping

What is taking shipping the present participle and gerund of?
Taking shipping is the present participle and gerund of take shipping.

Words near taking shipping in the dictionary

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

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