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Pay; reward. [Obs.] In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants. Chaucer.

An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs.

Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.

A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.

A shipowner.

Destitute of ships. Gray.

A little ship. [R.] Holinshed.

The load, or cargo, of a ship.

A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer. R. Browning. About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts xxvii. 27. Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] Shak.

The captain, master, or commander of a ship. Jonah i. 6.

One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

Owner of a ship or ships.

A stable; a cowhouse. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]

One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.

A document used in shipping goods by sea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the mate's receipt…