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aship

adv

aship

adv

Etymology From a- + ship.

1

US, Dated, Rare On or onto a ship.

  • […] it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore.1880, Mark Twain, chapter 17, in A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 154:
  • then the stern line was thrown aship, and the boat was off1912, Charles E. Young, chapter 6, in Dangers of the Trail in 1865, Geneva, NY: Press of W.F. Humphrey, page 116:

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