disship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]disship (third-person singular simple present disships, present participle disshipping, simple past and past participle disshipped)
- (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
[edit]- “disship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.