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shipping(encyclopedia)
shipping(dictionary)
shipping lane(dictionary)
shipping forecast(dictionary)
Teekay Shipping(finance)
Shipping Documents(finance)
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Angonave shipping(finance)
shipping fever(medicine)

shipping (iou)



shipping noun. ME.
[from SHIP verb + -ING1.]
(Without article.) A ship or ships for the use or accommodation of a person or thing; accommodation on board ship, provision of a ship or ships. Formerly also (in pl.), ships. arch. ME.
put to shipping put on board. take shipping embark; go abroad.
Sir W. Scott I will..seize on shipping, and embark for Flanders.
a. Navigation. LME-L17.
b. A voyage, a sailing. L15-L17.
The action or an act of shipping or transporting goods. LME.
shipping clerk, shipping company, shipping line, etc.
G. Anson A licence for the shipping of his stores. attrib.:
Ships collectively, esp. of a particular country, frequenting a particular port, or used for a particular purpose. L16.
LLOYD'S Register of Shipping.
Practical Boat Owner These things are strictly out-of-bounds to all shipping.
Comb.: shipping-agent a licensed agent transacting a ship's business, as insurance, documentation, etc., for the owner; shipping-articles = ship's articles s.v. SHIP noun; shipping-bill a manifest of goods shipped; shipping fever Veterinary Medicine (orig. US) any of several diseases typically contracted by cattle while being shipped from place to place, esp. one caused by bacteria of the genus Pasteurella; shipping-master an official superintending the signing of ship's articles, paying off of seamen, etc.; shipping-note a document containing particulars of goods for shipment made out by the sender and handed to the carrier; shipping-office the office of a shipping-master or a shipping-agent; shipping ore ore suitable for being shipped; shipping tobacco tobacco grown for export.