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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
unship .
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Examples
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He unships the helm; he flings compass and sextant overboard; he fires up the furnaces, and screws down the safety-valve, and says, 'Go ahead!'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate.
Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The handle unships, so as to be out of the way when not wanted.
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859
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The handle unships, so as to be out of the way when not wanted.
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Each single bricklayer who unships serves the colony better than a score of gentlemen.”
Australia Felix 2003
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a consequence the mess is sometimes inches deep in water, while the violent motion unships every moveable fitting in the place and flings it to the deck.
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