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Meaning of shiply | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Examples

“But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.”
“There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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