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Shipped

Ship \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shipping.]

  1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.

    The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
    --Knolles.

  2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

  3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]

  4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

  5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.

  6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

Wiktionary
shipped
  1. onboard a ship, part of a cargo. v

  2. (en-past of: ship)

WordNet
ship
  1. n. a vessel that carries passengers or freight

  2. [also: shipping, shipped]

ship
  1. v. transport commercially [syn: transport, send]

  2. hire for work on a ship

  3. go on board [syn: embark] [ant: disembark]

  4. travel by ship

  5. place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"

  6. [also: shipping, shipped]

shipped

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Usage examples of "shipped".

But despite his years with the Vivacia and his gratitude to Ephron Vestrit, he suspected this would be the last time he shipped on her.

The sailors who would have gone to their deaths willingly for her father now spoke openly in the forecastle of finding another vessel when next they shipped out.

The prices on such things were dear even in Bingtown, and outrageously high once the goods had been shipped to other ports.

Rodrigues shipped his oars and the boat swerved neatly to the side and he hung onto the boarding ropes.

With signs and yelling, Blackthorne got the oars shipped, doubled up the men on the working ones, and went aft again.

The oars were shipped neatly, and he could see indistinctly many seamen and warriors on deck.

Both ships were in the center of the harbor, safe from fishing ships and safe from each other, the frigate trembling into the wind, ready to fall off instantly, and the galley, oars shipped, drifting broadside to just within calling distance.

A hundred yards away the galley lay broadside, at the mercy of their cannon, oars shipped, except for two each side which kept her in station, the slight tide taking her.

The next day he had shipped them back to Yedo, a tenth of the treasure split up among them as back pay, the rest under guard on the ship.

It was all very well to be a scholar with unlimited search access to the library update datacubes the Grand Library shipped out every year or so.

Grand Library digital collection, or in the copies of it shipped out to the various planetary libraries.

In the abnormal years of the 1940s, there was no time for such luxuries, and the steel was shipped to the fabricating yards, mill scale and all.

Cumberland, which had been shipped for Flanders, was ordered to be brought on shore.

Italian organized silk as should appear to have been shipped in Holland and Hamburgh for London, on or before the first day of December.

A slight intrench-ment being raised, sufficient to defend the last division that should be re-embarked, the stores and artillery were shipped, and the light horses conveyed on board their respective transports, by means of platforms laid in the flat-bottomed vessels.