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unshipping

unshipping is the present participle and gerund of unship.

Meaning of unship

Verb

unship (third-person singular simple present unships, present participle unshipping, simple past and past participle unshipped)

  1. To unload cargo from a ship or other vessel.
  2. (transitive) To remove (an oar, a mast, etc.) from its normal position.
    • Dan sluiced the pen energetically, unshipped the table, set it up to dry in the moonlight, ran the red knife-blades through a wad of oakum, and began to sharpen them on a tiny grindstone […]1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
  3. (archaic) To throw from a horse; to unseat.
    • Ben hired a nag, but 'twould stumble of course, / And by falling endanger poor Ben, / Aye, and over her bows, sir, this crazy old horse / Would unship, and unship him again.1823 February 8, L. O., “Ballast”, in The Mirror, number XV, page 240

Questions about unshipping

What is unshipping the present participle and gerund of?
Unshipping is the present participle and gerund of unship.

Words near unshipping in the dictionary

  1. unshiplike
  2. unshipment
  3. unshipments
  4. unshippable
  5. unshipped
  6. unshipping
  7. unships
  8. unshipshape
  9. unshipwrecked
  10. unshired
  11. unshirkable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshipping (page history and authors); unship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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