shipping : Idioms & Phrases


Shipping articles

  • noun a contract between crew and captain of a ship
    articles of agreement.
WordNet
  • articles of agreement between the captain of a vessel and the seamen on board, in respect to the amount of wages, length of time for which they are shipping, etc. Bouvier.
Webster 1913

To take shipping

  • to embark; to take ship. Obs. John vi.24. Shak.
Webster 1913