disship

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/dɪsˈʃɪp/

verb

To dismiss from service on board ship.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person disships · participle present disshipping · participle past disshipped · past disshipped

  1. obsoleteTo dismiss from service on board ship.

    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

    1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Origin

From dis- + ship.

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APA

disship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disship

MLA

“disship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disship. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disship.

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