Word: ship Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-West Germanic *skipōn, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”). Doublet of equip. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪp/, [ˈʃʰɪp] 1. To send by water-borne transport. Labels: transitive Example: All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium. Example: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2. To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport). Labels: transitive Example: to ship freight by railroad 3. To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch. Labels: ergative Example: Our next issue ships early next year. Example: It compiles? Ship it! 4. To engage to serve on board a vessel. Labels: ergative Example: to ship seamen Example: I shipped on a man-of-war. 5. To embark on a ship. Labels: intransitive Example: I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […] 6. To put or secure in its place. Labels: transitive Example: to ship the tiller or rudder Example: To the upper part of the frame a chain is attached, and if the screw shaft be drawn back out of the boss, the square frame may be hove up by carrying the chain to a winch—the sliding block maintaining the frame in the perpendicular position. By the use of this contrivance, therefore, the screw may be shipped or unshipped with facility. 7. To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel. Labels: transitive Example: She was half in the water, a mere hulk, her rigging torn to shreds, her main mast cut away, and every sea she shipped, Melmoth could hear distinctly the dying cries of those who were swept away, or perhaps of those whose mind and body, alike exhausted, relaxed their benumbed hold of hope and life together,—knew that the next shriek that was uttered must be their own and their last. Example: But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water. 8. To leave, depart, scram. Labels: colloquial Example: Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it! 9. To pass (from one person to another). Labels: colloquial, ditransitive Example: Can you ship me the ketchup? Example: And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch. 10. To go all in. Labels: ambitransitive, slang 11. To trade or send (a player) to another team. Labels: transitive Example: Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers. 12. To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession. Labels: transitive Example: England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men. Example: They shipped penalties, lost field position, and in the second-half, having retreated to the changing room buoyed by Dougie Fife’s well-worked try, found themselves ceding two-thirds of the territory and with it, the lion’s share of the ball.