Enship

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To put aboard a ship. transitive
  2. 2
    To travel or send by ship. transitive

    "[…] but to my surprise we had orders for India and were to enship within three weeks."

Synonyms

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embark

Example

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"[…] but to my surprise we had orders for India and were to enship within three weeks."

Etymology

Alteration of earlier inship, equivalent to in- + ship. Compare West Frisian ynskipje (“to board a ship”), Dutch inschepen (“to ship, embark”), German einschiffen (“to ship, embark”), Danish indskibe (“to ship, embark”), Swedish inskeppa (“to ship, embark”).

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