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English
Etymology
From dis- + ship.
Pronunciation
Verb
disship (third-person singular simple present disships, present participle disshipping, simple past and past participle disshipped)
- (obsolete) To dismiss from service on board ship.
1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, , London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, , →OCLC:the Captaine by discretion shall from time to time disship any artificer or English servingman or apprentice out of the Primrose into any of the other three ships
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