Etymology : Middle English, from Old English scip; akin to Old High German skif ship
Pronunciation : ship
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. large vessel made for sailing on the sea; aircraft, spacecraft. send, dispatch; transport by ship (or airplane, truck, etc.); put on board a ship; embark, board a ship; travel on a ship; work on a ship. ship\ship\ , n. [as. scipe.] pay; reward. [obs.] in withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants.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.].
2. any large seagoing vessel. like a stately ship with all her bravery on, and tackle trim, sails filled, and streamers waving. thou, too, sail on, o ship of state!.
3. 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. l port or larboard side; s starboard side; 1 roundhouse or deck house; 2 tiller; 3 grating; 4 wheel; 5 wheel chains; 6 binnacle; 7 mizzenmast; 8 skylight; 9 capstan; 10 mainmast; 11 pumps; 12 galley or caboose; 13 main hatchway; 14 windlass; 15 foremast; 16 fore hatchway; 17 bitts; 18 bowsprit; 19 head rail; 20 boomkins; 21 catheads on port bow and starboard bow; 22 fore chains; 23 main chains; 24 mizzen chains; 25 stern. 1 fore royal stay; 2 flying jib stay; 3 fore topgallant stay;4 jib stay; 5 fore topmast stays; 6 fore tacks; 8 flying martingale; 9 martingale stay, shackled to dolphin striker; 10 jib guys; 11 jumper guys; 12 back ropes; 13 robstays; 14 flying jib boom; 15 flying jib footropes; 16 jib boom; 17 jib foottropes; 18 bowsprit; 19 fore truck; 20 fore royal mast; 21 fore royal lift; 22 fore royal yard; 23 fore royal backstays; 24 fore royal braces; 25 fore topgallant mast and rigging; 26 fore topgallant lift; 27 fore topgallant yard; 28 fore topgallant backstays; 29 fore topgallant braces; 30 fore topmast and rigging; 31 fore topsail lift; 32 fore topsail yard; 33 fore topsail footropes; 34 fore topsail braces; 35 fore yard; 36 fore brace; 37 fore lift; 38 fore gaff; 39 fore trysail vangs; 40 fore topmast studding-sail boom; 41 foremast and rigging; 42 fore topmast backstays; 43 fore sheets; 44 main truck and pennant; 45 main royal mast and backstay; 46 main royal stay; 47 main royal lift; 48 main royal yard; 49 main royal braces; 50 main topgallant mast and rigging; 51 main topgallant lift; 52 main topgallant backstays; 53 main topgallant yard; 54 main topgallant stay; 55 main topgallant braces; 56 main topmast and rigging; 57 topsail lift; 58 topsail yard; 59 topsail footropes; 60 topsail braces; 61 topmast stays; 62 main topgallant studding-sail boom; 63 main topmast backstay; 64 main yard; 65 main footropes; 66 mainmast and rigging; 67 main lift; 68 main braces; 69 main tacks; 70 main sheets; 71 main trysail gaff; 72 main trysail vangs; 73 main stays; 74 mizzen truck; 75 mizzen royal mast and rigging; 76 mizzen royal stay; 77 mizzen royal lift; 78 mizzen royal yard; 79 mizzen royal braces; 80 mizzen topgallant mast and rigging; 81 mizzen topgallant lift; 82 mizzen topgallant backstays; 83 mizzen topgallant braces; 84 mizzen topgallant yard; 85 mizzen topgallant stay; 86 mizzen topmast and rigging; 87 mizzen topmast stay; 88 mizzen topsail lift; 89 mizzen topmast backstays; 90 mizzen topsail braces; 91 mizzen topsail yard; 92 mizzen topsail footropes; 93 crossjack yard; 94 crossjack footropes; 95 crossjack lift; 96 crossjack braces; 97 mizzenmast and rigging; 98 mizzen stay; 99 spanker gaff; 100 peak halyards; 101 spanker vangs; 102 spanker boom; 103 spanker boom topping lift; 104 jacob's ladder, or stern ladder; 105 spanker sheet; 106 cutwater; 107 starboard bow; 108 starboard beam; 109 water line; 110 starboard quarter; 111 rudder.
4. a dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. [obs.].
5. A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
6. Pay; reward.
7. Any large seagoing vessel.
8. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts , each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts.
9. See Illustation in Appendix.
10. A dish or utensil used to hold incense.
11. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
12. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
13. Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
14. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
15. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
16. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
17. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of- war.
18. To embark on a ship. a vessel that carries passengers or freight place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel" travel by ship hire for work on a ship.
19. 1. A ship is a large boat which carries passengers or cargo. Within ninety minutes the ship was ready for departure We went by ship over to America. merchant ships.
20. If people or things are shipped somewhere, they are sent there on a ship or by some other means of transport. Food is being shipped to drought-stricken Southern Africa. see also:
shipping. Large floating vessel capable of crossing open waters. The term formerly was applied to sailing vessels with three or more masts; today it usually denotes a vessel of more than 500 tons' (450 metric tons') displacement. The largest ships today are enormous oil tankers, some of which are 500,000 tons (450,000 metric tons) deadweight. Other specialized ships (containerships) carry general freight in standardized containers that can be easily loaded, unloaded, and transferred. See also battleship, brig, clipper ship, corvette, dhow, frigate, junk, longship, ocean liner, schooner, yacht. Viking ship clipper ship ship money ship of the line.
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