Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of ships.

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  • adjective Destitute of ships.

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  • adjective Without a ship.

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Examples

  • Twenty and thirty times a day he would reel out of his tent, a brimming beaker in one hand, stagger the short distance to the shore, and look toward the shipless, sailless harbor mouth.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Twenty and thirty times a day he would reel out of his tent, a brimming beaker in one hand, stagger the short distance to the shore, and look toward the shipless, sailless harbor mouth.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Artificial gravity once again took firm hold of the ship's contents, including the now shipless crew of the vanished Palomino.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • There was no use in asking what brought a Free Trader shipless into the Diving Lokworm.

    Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969

  • It's not been pleasant to be a shipless captain living on strangers 'bounty.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • "By Jove, it has!" exclaimed Tom, rushing to the other side of the room, and peering out at the shipless sea.

    The Inn at the Red Oak Latta Griswold

  • To the uninitiated, it seems to have the same paucity of interest as any other shipless stretch of water; but to this expert it has a story.

    Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall

  • Seat; it is as fine in that neighbourhood as Juan Fernandez, as lonely too, when the Fishing boats are not out; I have sat for hours, staring upon the shipless sea.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • It's not been pleasant to be a shipless captain living on strangers 'bounty.

    Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

  • And so with painful steps (for the shores of the world are covered with huge crystals) he came to the risky seas of Shiroora Shan and saw them pounding to gravel the wreckage of fallen stars, saw them and heard their roar, those shipless seas that between earth and the fairies 'homes heave beneath some huge wind that is none of our four.

    Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

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