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took shipping

took shipping is the simple past 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 took shipping the simple past of?
Took shipping is the simple past of take shipping.

Words near took shipping in the dictionary

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

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