Definitions
the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
Word origin
From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.”
“[…] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;”
“My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Transporting goods”8 letters
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