shanghai

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.
• transitive verb To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Nautical, to render insensible, as a person, by drugs, liquor, or violence, and ship him on a vessel wanting hands, for the purpose of fraudulently securing advance-money and any premium offered for procuring seamen.
• noun A very long-legged hen with feathered shanks, reputed to have been introduced from Shanghai, China.
• noun Hence A tall person; especially, a tall dandy.
• noun A long, slender oyster; a stick-up or stuck-up; a coon-heel, rabbit-ear, or razor-blade.
• noun A kind of fish-hook.
• noun A boys' catapult.
• To shoot with a shanghai. See shanghai, 5.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
• transitive verb Slang, U.S. To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.
• verb transitive To abduct or coerce.
• verb transitive To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
• noun dated A slingshot.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
• noun the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world