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v. i.
To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
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An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
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Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
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One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
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Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
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That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
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One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
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Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
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The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
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A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.
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A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
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In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
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A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
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Destitute of ships.
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The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
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A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
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A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
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Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
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That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
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Owner of a ship or ships.
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