Meanings
twin-ship1
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of twinship (“the condition of being a twin”).
Engel suggests that twins might exploit the narcissistic advantages of twin-ship precisely to avoid negotiating the Oedipus conflict.
2002, Bernardine Bishop, Angela Foster, Josephine Klein, Ideas in Practice, →ISBN, page 23
twin-ship2
plural twin-ships
- alternativeAlternative form of twinship (“either of a pair of ships”).
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All classes of Her Majesty's subjects, chief constructors at shipbuilding yards, artists, medical men, clergymen, lawyers, ladies, crowd the columns of the newspapers, and all with the same story, the absence of sea-sickness on board the twin-ship, owing to the absence of pitching, and the very slight rolling or tremulous motion experienced.
1875, The English Channel Steam Ship Company, Limited
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