disship

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈʃɪp/

Verb

disship (third-person singular simple present disships, present participle disshipping, simple past and past participle disshipped)

1. (obsolete) To dismiss from service on board ship.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     the Captaine by discretion shall from time to time disship any artificer or English servingman or apprentice out of the Primrose into any of the other three ships

References

• “disship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.