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- noun Obsolete spelling of
ship .
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Examples
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Magnificat, and Benedictus, but in the shippe was a Frier of Santo
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As they approached Candia a violent storm came on, and the mariners began to reproach the Englishman as the cause, "and saide I was no good Christian, and wished I were in the middest of the sea, saying that they and the shippe were the worse for me."
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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The Master of the shippe was our great friend, or else we had bene put to death if he had not kept our counsayle.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Friends, they drew forth their Ponyards, stabbing each other so often and desperately, that before any in the shippe had the power or meanes to part them, both of them being very dangerously wounded, the younger brother fell downe dead: the elder being in little better case, by receiving so many perilous hurts, remained
The Decameron 2004
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The enemies to Chynon, being nothing danted with his words, prepared to stand upon their owne defence; which made Chynon, after the former speeches delivered, and no answer returned, to command the grapling Irons to be cast forth, which tooke such fast hold on the Rhodians shippe, that (whether they would or no) both the vessels joyned close together.
The Decameron 2004
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Here also they vse a kinde of Bark or shippe called Iase being compact together onely with hempe.
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Egæus doth testifie this, who when he sawe the shippe of his sonne Theseus, returning out of Creete with blacke sayles, thinking that his sonne had perished, ended his life in the next waters: Sabell lib.
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This aforesaid shippe called The Centurion safely arriued at
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Persia in a certaine shippe made of bourdes, and sowed together with cayro, which is threede made of the huske of Cocoes, and certaine canes or strawe leaues sowed vpon the seames of the bordes which is the cause that they leake very much.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sundayes, commeth to the banke of the lake, so that any man may then easily enter into it, as it were into a shippe: which notwithstanding (sayth he) destiny will not suffer any more then one to enter at a time.
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