Meaning of take shipping | Babel Free

Definitions

To embark on a ship.

archaic

Examples

“1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, London: Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye, “Henrie the thirde,” p. 140, […] dyuerse noble men of the land, which helde against those statutes, were ridden toward Douer, and there entended to haue taken shipping for feare of the Barons”

“[…] at last, finding that those who marched through the continent met with an ocean of miserie, he thought better to trust the wind and sea then the Greeks; and taking shipping safely arrived in Palestine […]”

“[…] I again left my native Country, and took shipping in the Downs on the 20th Day of June 1702.”

“1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, London: Lackington et al., Volume 3, Chapter 1, pp. 13-14, We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.”

“[…] the pilgrim enthusiasts of our party […] could scarcely eat, so anxious were they to “take shipping” and sail in very person upon the waters that had borne the vessels of the Apostles.”

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