Shipping

Definition of Shipping

Ship´ping
a.1.Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
2.Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
n.1.The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
2.The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
3.Navigation.
Shipping articles
articles of agreement between the captain of a vessel and the seamen on board, in respect to the amount of wages, length of time for which they are shipping, etc.
To take shipping
to embark; to take ship.
- Bouvier.

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