shiply

comparative shiplier · comparative more shiply · superlative shipliest · superlative most shiply

1. Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.

   But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.

   1942, Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water

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   There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades.

   1953, William Sansom, Pleasures strange and simple

   They anchored at the island, which they had named Bear Island, for several days while they worked on their ship; repairing sails and doing shiply things of which Jacob still had little inkling.

   2012, Stuart Wilson, Ice Haven