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take shipping

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To embark on a ship.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, London: Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye, “Henrie the thirde,” p. 140, [...] dyuerse noble men of the land, which helde against those statutes, were ridden toward Douer, and there entended to haue taken shipping for feare of the Barons
  • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, London: Lackington et al., Volume 3, Chapter 1, pp. 13-14, We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.

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