In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of
servants.
Chaucer.
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.
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.
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3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship)
used to hold incense. [Obs.] Tyndale.
Armed ship, a private ship taken into the service of the government in
time of war, and armed and equipped like a ship of war. [Eng.] Brande &
C. -- General ship. See under General. -- Ship biscuit, hard biscuit
prepared for use on shipboard; -- called also ship bread. See Hardtack.
-- Ship boy, a boy who serves in a ship. "Seal up the ship boy's eyes."
Shak. -- Ship breaker, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for further
use. -- Ship broker, a mercantile agent employed in buying and selling
ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in transacting the
business of a ship or ships when in port. -- Ship canal, a canal
suitable for the passage of seagoing vessels. -- Ship carpenter, a
carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a shipwright. -- Ship chandler,
one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other, furniture of vessels. --
Ship chandlery, the commodities in which a ship chandler deals; also,
the business of a ship chandler. -- Ship fever (Med.), a form of typhus
fever; -- called also putrid, jail, or hospital fever. -- Ship joiner,
a joiner who works upon ships. -- Ship letter, a letter conveyed by a
ship not a mail packet. -- Ship money (Eng. Hist.), an imposition
formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties,
of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's
service. The attempt made by Charles I. to revive and enforce this tax
was resisted by John Hampden, and was one of the causes which led to
the death of Charles. It was finally abolished. -- Ship of the line.
See under Line. -- Ship pendulum, a pendulum hung amidships to show the
extent of the rolling and pitching of a vessel. -- Ship railway. (a) An
inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be
drawn out of water, as for repairs. (b) A railway arranged for the
transportation of vessels overland between two water courses or
harbors. -- Ship's company, the crew of a ship or other vessel. --
Ship's days, the days allowed a vessel for loading or unloading. --
Ship's husband. See under Husband. -- Ship's papers (Mar. Law), papers
with which a vessel is required by law to be provided, and the
production of which may be required on certain occasions. Among these
papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter party, bills
of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll, bill of health, etc.
Bouvier. Kent. -- To make ship, to embark in a ship or other vessel.
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.