Definitions
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- adjective which is in a
ship ; especially which isbound there, unable to leave.
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Examples
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He was a shipbound mech-bot with a claw for manipulating wires and circuitboards.
Love Rusts 2010
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Most shipbound people slept almost nude on deck, though not as peacefully as at sea.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Most shipbound people slept almost nude on deck, though not as peacefully as at sea.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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A few canons had expressed fear that men spending a lifetime shipbound, no chaplain among them, might fall into despair, curse God, yes, commit the sin against nature.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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This, she thought, ended the matter; it was unfortunate that they should be shipbound on the Nile; but she trusted to his tact and good sense to save them both from embarrassment.
Ranson's Folly Richard Harding Davis 1890
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Of course the rum came on board the moment the crew was set at liberty, the marines having contributed to a pool which ensured that, shipbound or no, they would still be able to moisten their parched throats with something stronger than Sinclair’s fucken grog.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Of course the rum came on board the moment the crew was set at liberty, the marines having contributed to a pool which ensured that, shipbound or no, they would still be able to moisten their parched throats with something stronger than Sinclair’s fucken grog.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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