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Verb
ship a sea (third-person singular simple present ships a sea, present participle shipping a sea, simple past and past participle shipped a sea)
- (intransitive, nautical) To have a large wave wash over one's vessel.
1724, [Daniel Defoe], “Letter V”, in The Great Law of Subordination Consider’d; or, The Insolence and Unsufferable Behaviour of Servants in England Duly Enquir’d into. , London: Sold by S. Harding, , →OCLC, page 134:[…] VVaterman, ſays I, vvhat are you doing? vvhat did you ſhip a Sea? ay, ſays the VVaterman, and a great one too; vvhy it blovvs a Frett of VVind; […]
1774, David Henry, “The Voyages of Captain Cooke”, in An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, volume 2, London: F. Newbery, page 19:Thus we scudded before the wind […] and at nine shipped a sea in the poop, as we in the cabbin were going to supper.
1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter VIII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. , New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, page 81:At almost every roll to leeward she shipped a sea, several of which came partially down into the cabin during our scuffle, the hatchway having been left open by myself when I descended.