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- noun Plural form of
shippe .
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Examples
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I brought in shippes and in barge, More gold and silver with me, Than has your lord, and swilke three.
The Talisman 2008
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Thise marchantz han doon fraught hir shippes newe,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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Now Englishmen went in shippes to Alessandrie, and brent it, and over ran the
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Hewed out hauens on euery strond, enlarged crieques, opened rodes, and digged out herborowes, where their shippes mighte ride saulfe fro the storme.
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Tripolis in Syria, at Aleppo, at Babylon, at Balsara, and which is more, who euer heard of Englishman at Goa before now? what English shippes did heeretofore euer anker in the mighty riuer of Plate? passe and repasse the vnpassable (in former opinion) straight of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thus we warped vnlil 9. in the afternoone, and then we moared both our shippes to a great and high piece of ice, vntil the next morning.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Punic warre the most choyse and gallant young men in all the Citie were sent as pledges into Sicilia, whom they followed vnto the shippes with most miserable weeping and lamentation, and some of them being with griefe separated from their deare sonnes, when they sawe the saules hoysed, and the shippes departing out of the hauen, for very anguish cast themselues headlong into the water: as
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I haue licensed them to saile with their shippes into our dominion the land of Dwina, with all kind of commodities to trade freely, and vnto our kingdom andd the citie of Mosco, and to all the cities of our empire of Moscouia.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Marchants, they get very strong and well seasoned plankes for the building, the Shippewrights, they with daily trauaile, and their greatest skill doe fitte them for the dispatch of the shippes: they calke them, pitch them, and among the rest, they make one most stanch and firme, by an excellent and ingenious inuention.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Russe with the Kings or great Dukes seale, the other two shippes looked for and vnknowen to them where they were.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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