take shipping

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take shipping

verb takes shipping · taking shipping · took shipping · taken shipping

archaic To embark on a ship. 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

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@misc{take_shipping_2026,
  title = {take shipping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/take%20shipping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}