enship
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAlteration 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
editenship (third-person singular simple present enships, present participle enshipping, simple past and past participle enshipped)
- (transitive) To put aboard a ship.
- (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.