ship
Old Englishship, vessel for water travel
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From Old English scip 'vessel,' from Proto-Germanic *skipą. As a free word and as the first element of compounds, ship always means a large watercraft: shipment, spaceship, shipwreck, shipbuilding, shipwright, shipshape, shipload. Note: the abstract suffix -ship (leadership, friendship) is a different, unrelated element — Old English -scipe 'state, condition,' a relative of shape.
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shipment
A quantity of goods transported; the act of sending goods
spaceship
A vehicle designed to travel through outer space
shipwreck
A sunken or destroyed ship; the event of a ship sinking
shipbuilding
The construction of ships
shipshape
Meticulously neat and tidy
shipload
The full amount of cargo a ship can carry
shipwright
A person who builds and repairs ships