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English
Adjective
ship-shape (comparative more ship-shape, superlative most ship-shape)
- Archaic spelling of shipshape.
, London:
T. Hurst
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→OCLC:
SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.]
1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter V, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; , volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; , →OCLC, page 83:t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]
Adverb
ship-shape (comparative more ship-shape, superlative most ship-shape)
- Archaic spelling of shipshape.
1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XV, in The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. , volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 233:No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.
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