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Meaning of ship-shape | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Archaic spelling of shipshape.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.”

“[I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

ship-to-air ship-to-ground ship-to-ship shipboard shipborne shipbound