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- English Word Shipping Definition Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
- English Word Shipping Definition Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
- English Word Shipping Definition The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
- English Word Shipping Definition The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
- English Word Shipping Definition Navigation.
- English Word Shippon Definition A cowhouse; a shippen.
- English Word Shipshape Definition Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
- English Word Shipshape Definition In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
- English Word Shipworm Definition Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
- English Word Shipwreck Definition The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
- English Word Shipwreck Definition A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
- English Word Shipwreck Definition Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
- English Word Shipwreck Definition To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
- English Word Shipwreck Definition To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
- English Word Shipwrecked Definition of Shipwreck
- English Word Shipwrecking Definition of Shipwreck
- English Word Shipwright Definition One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
- English Word Shipyard Definition A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
- English Word Shiraz Definition A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
- English Word Shire Definition A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
- English Word Shire Definition A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
- English Word Shirk Definition To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
- English Word Shirk Definition To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
- English Word Shirk Definition To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
- English Word Shirk Definition To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- English Word Shirk Definition One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
- English Word Shirked Definition of Shirk
- English Word Shirker Definition One who shirks.
- English Word Shirking Definition of Shirk
- English Word Shirky Definition Disposed to shirk.