Enship
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To put aboard a ship. transitive
- 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
All synonymsExample
More examples"[…] 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”).