'bout ship

A form of about ship — Tack; to cause to turn into the wind and through the other side ending with a full 180 degree turn.

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Meanings

verb'bout ship (third-person singular simple present 'bout ships, present participle 'bout shipping, simple past and past participle 'bout ship or 'bout shipped)

present singular third person 'bout ships · participle present 'bout shipping · participle past 'bout shipped · past 'bout shipped

  1. alternativeintransitivenauticalAlternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”).

    `Very well, then; there are two alternatives before us. One is to 'bout ship, and try and run for some port in the whale-boat, which would be a sufficiently risky proceeding, and the other to sail or row on up the river, and see where we come to.'

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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