ship

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In spite of the name the ship is English, and is a barque of about 600 tons register.

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  1. noun A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.
  2. noun A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.
  3. noun An aircraft or spacecraft.

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  • And then, as the ship was attempting to leave after it marooned us, it struck an iceberg and sank What about the crew who was on it then The man's lips became thin. —  106 - Peril In The North
  • I do not think a short stay here will hurt his health, particularly as his ship is at anchor, and his mind not harassed. —  The Life of Nelson, Vol. II
  • It approached rapidly, for the ship was a fast one. —  119 - The Time Terror
  • The diplomats said the ship is Italian-operated and flies a Panamanian flag. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • As soon as a ship is attacked they send a signal ... —  AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English scip.

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  1. from Middle English ship, schip, schup, ssip, schippe (plural shippes, schipes), from Anglo-Saxon scip, scyp (plural scipu) = Old Saxon skip = OFries. skip, schip = Dutch schip = Middle Low German schip, schep, Low German schipp = Old High German scif, scef, Middle High German schif, German schiff (hence (from Old High German) Italian schifo = Spanish Portuguese esquife = French esquif, later English skiff, a boat) = Icelandic skip = Swedish skepp = Danish skib = Gothic (Moesogothic) skip, a ship; cf. Old High German scif, a containing vessel, sciphi, a vial (cf. English vessel, a containing utensil, and a ship); root unknown. There is no way of deriving the word from Anglo-Saxon scapan, etc., shape, form, of which the secondary form scippan, scyppan, has no real relation to scip (see shape); and it cannot be related to L. scapha, from Greek σκάφη, also σκάφος, a bowl, a small boat, skiff, properly a vessel hollowed out, from σκάπτειν, dig (see scapha).
  2. from Middle English shipen, schipen, from Anglo-Saxon scipian = Dutch schepen = Middle Low German schepen = Middle High German G. schiffen, ship, = Norwegian skipa, skjepa, skæpa = Swedish skeppa = Danish skibe, ship: see ship, n. Cf. equip.
 

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