take shipping
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, London: Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye, “Henrie the thirde,” p. 140, […] dyuerse noble men of the land, which helde against those statutes, were ridden toward Douer, and there entended to haue taken shipping for feare of the Barons"
- "[…] at last, finding that those who marched through the continent met with an ocean of miserie, he thought better to trust the wind and sea then the Greeks; and taking shipping safely arrived in Palestine […]"
- "[…] I again left my native Country, and took shipping in the Downs on the 20th Day of June 1702."
- "1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, London: Lackington et al., Volume 3, Chapter 1, pp. 13-14, We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London."
- "[…] the pilgrim enthusiasts of our party […] could scarcely eat, so anxious were they to “take shipping” and sail in very person upon the waters that had borne the vessels of the Apostles."