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English Dictionary: ship by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ship
n
  1. a vessel that carries passengers or freight
v
  1. transport commercially
    Synonym(s): transport, send, ship
  2. hire for work on a ship
  3. go on board
    Synonym(s): embark, ship
    Antonym(s): debark, disembark, set down
  4. travel by ship
  5. place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   -ship \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
      OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
      n., and {Landscape}.]
      A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
      as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
      horsemanship.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ship \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
      Pay; reward. [Obs.]
  
               In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
               the wages of servants.                           --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ship \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
      skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
      Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
      {Equip}, {Skiff}, {Skipper}.]
      1. Any large seagoing vessel.
  
                     Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
                     and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!   --Longfellow.
  
      2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
            masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
            which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
            topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
            Illustation in Appendix.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ship \Ship\, v. i.
      1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
            man-of-war.
  
      2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ship \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shipping}.]
      1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
            transportation; to send by water.
  
                     The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
                     from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
                                                                              --Knolles.
  
      2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
            conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
            freight by railroad.
  
      3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
  
      4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
            ship seamen.
  
      5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
  
      6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the
      same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]
      1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
            packet of letters. --Shak.
  
      2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
            dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
            dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
            days of sailing; a mail boat.
  
      {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.
  
      {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
            the sailing day.
  
      {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.
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