enship

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Etymology

Alteration of earlier inship, equivalent to in- + ship. Compare West Frisian ynskipje (to board a ship), Dutch inschepen (to ship, embark), German einschiffen (to ship, embark), Danish indskibe (to ship, embark), Swedish inskeppa (to ship, embark).

Verb

enship (third-person singular simple present enships, present participle enshipping, simple past and past participle enshipped)

  1. (transitive) To put aboard a ship.
  2. (transitive) To travel or send by ship.
    • 2013, Mary Fitzgerald, The Love of a Lifetime, page 342:
      [] but to my surprise we had orders for India and were to enship within three weeks.

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