enship

English

Alternative forms

• inship

Etymology

Alteration of earlier inship, equivalent to in- +‎ ship. Compare West Frisian ynskipje (“to board a ship”), Dutch inschepen (“to ship, embark”), German einschiffen (“to ship, embark”), Danish indskibe (“to ship, embark”), Swedish inskeppa (“to ship, embark”).

Verb

enship (third-person singular simple present enships, present participle enshipping, simple past and past participle enshipped)

1. (transitive) To put aboard a ship.
2. (transitive) To travel or send by ship.
   • 2013, Mary Fitzgerald, The Love of a Lifetime, page 342:

     […] but to my surprise we had orders for India and were to enship within three weeks.

Synonyms

• embark

Anagrams

• Pen-hsi, hepsin