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