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Shipping   /ʃˈɪpɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Shipping  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
2.
The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
3.
Navigation. "God send 'em good shipping."
Shipping articles, articles of agreement between the captain of a vessel and the seamen on board, in respect to the amount of wages, length of time for which they are shipping, etc.
To take shipping, to embark; to take ship. (Obs.)


verb
Ship  v. t.  (past & past part. shipped; pres. part. shipping)  
1.
To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water. "The timber was... shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium."
2.
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
3.
Hence, to send away; to get rid of. (Colloq.)
4.
To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
5.
To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
6.
To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.


Ship  v. i.  
1.
To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
2.
To embark on a ship.


adjective
Shipping  adj.  
1.
Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
2.
Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.





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"Shipping" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning, cloudless in its dazzling splendour. In front, the huge Table Mountain rears its massive wall, dwarfing the mud-town lying at its base and the bristling masts of shipping, its great line mirrored in the sheeny surface. Away in the distance, the purple cones of the Hottentots Holland mountains loom thirstily through a glimmer of summer haze. A fair scene indeed after three weeks of ...
— The Sign of the Spider • Bertram Mitford
... way on deck. The state of the wreck seemed almost hopeless, but, like brave boys as they were, they still kept to their resolution of trying to pump out the water. They fortunately found the brake of the pump, as the handle is called, and shipping it, began to work away with might and main. The water quickly came up in a clear, bright stream, which told too plainly, without their sounding the well, the large amount of water which had either leaked in or found ...
— Adrift in a Boat • W.H.G. Kingston
... Burris explaining the incredible complexities of the situation to the president, and was torn between relief that he hadn't been there and a curious wish to have heard the scrambled conversation that must have taken place. "The way it seems to me," he said cautiously, "shipping those spies back to Russia is a worse punishment than sending ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... logical analysis, one can determine the necessary reason for the existence of a dead city of a very high order on an utterly useless planet. Obviously a shipping transfer point! Necessarily... ...
— Dead Giveaway • Gordon Randall Garrett
... and though most of the inhabitants are small shop-keepers and coolies of the lowest class, the houses are for the most part well and solidly built of stone. The foreign settlement occupies a position between the native town and the sea, which neither affords a convenient access for shipping nor allows space for any great extension of area. Its growth, however, has hitherto been steady and rapid. Various streets have been laid out, a large hotel erected for the reception of the visitors who resort to the place as a ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various


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