Shipping

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Shipping - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SHIP'PING, ppr.

1. Putting on board of a ship or vessel; receiving on board.

2. a. Relating to ships; as shipping concerns.

SHIP'PING, n. Ships in general; ships or vessels of any kind for navigation. The shipping of the English nation exceeds that of any other. The tunnage of shipping belonging to the United States is second only to that of Great Britain.

To take shipping, to embark; to enter on board a ship or vessel for conveyance or passage.

SHIP'-SHAPE, adv. In a seamanlike manner.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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