Ship

[A-S. scipe, scype.] A termination denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art, as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.

n. [A-S. & O. Sax. scip, O. Fries., Icel., & Goth. skip, Dan. skib, Sw. skepp, D. schip, L. Ger. schipp, O. H. Ger. scif, N. H. Ger. schiff, perhaps from A-S. scyppan, sceppan, to mold, form, shape. Cf. Gr. σκάφη, a boat, from Gr. σκάπτειν, to dig, scoop out.]

1Sense 1. Any large sea-going vessel.

Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled and streamers waving. Milton.

Like ships that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore. T. K. Hervey.

2Sense 2. Especially, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts, a main-mast, a fore-mast, and a mizzen-mast, each of which is composed of a lower mast, a top-mast, and topgallant-mast, and square rigged.

Ground Plan of a Ship.

p, prow; l, larboard or port; s, starboard; 1, round-house; 2, tiller; 3, grating; 4, wheel; 5, wheel-chains; 6, binnacle; 7, mizzen-mast; 8, skylight; 9, capstan; 10, main-mast; 11, pumps; 12, galley, caboose; 13, main hatchway; 14, windlass; 15, fore-mast; 16, fore-hatchway; 17, bitts; 18, bowsprit; 19, head-rail; 20, boomkins; 21, bows; 22, fore-chains; 23, main-chains; 24, mizzen-chains.

3Sense 3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] Tyndale.

Armed ship, a private ship taken into the service of the government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a ship of war. [Eng.] Brande. — General ship. See GENERAL. — Ship of the line, a vessel of war of the rate of seventy-four guns or more. Totten. — Ship's husband, one who attends to the requisite repairs of a ship while in port, and does all the other necessary acts preparatory to a voyage. Bouvier. — Ship's papers (Maritime Law), papers with which a vessel is required by law to be provided, and the production of which may be required on certain occasions: such are the register, passport or sea-letter, charter-party, bills of lading, invoice, log-book, muster-roll, bill of health, and the like. Bouvier. Kent. Simmonds.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SHIPPED (shĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SHIPPING.] [A-S. scipian, L. Ger. schepen, H. Ger. schiffen.]

1Sense 1. To put on board of a ship or vessel of any kind for transportation; to send by water; to dispatch; hence, to dispose of; to get rid of.

The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, But we will ship him hence. Shak.

2Sense 2. To engage for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

3Sense 3. To receive on board of a ship or vessel; as, to ship a sea. Mar. Dict.

4Sense 4. To fix in its place; as, to ship the tiller, or rudder. Totten.

To ship off, to send away by water; as, to ship off convicts.