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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SHIP, n., v. Sc. usages:

I. n. Combs.: 1. ship jack, see quot.; 2. ship-staff, the pole at the lower end of a salmon-net which is drawn across the river by the boat (see quot.); 3. ship-wrack, shipwreck (Sh. 1970). This form became obs. in Eng. a.1700. Hence ppl.adj. ship-wracked.1. Sc. 1815 Scots Mag. (August) 635:
A number of that species of whale called by sailors Ship Jacks.2. Abd. 1798 Session Papers, Burnet v. Earl of Aberdeen (18 Dec.) 3:
The net itself is protracted and carried over to the opposite side by means of a coble, and then is brought down circuitously, about 500 feet from where it set out, (sweeping all along the bottom of the river), to the foot or lower end of the shot, where the man in the coble comes ashore, bringing the ship-staff, or under end of the net along with him, and there the man holding the land-staff meets him.3. Fif. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife (1803) 164:
[St. Regulus] near two years thereafter suffered shipwrack at Muckross, upon this coast.Wgt. a.1725 G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 45:
To 3 Seamen shipwracked, 15s.Sc. 1835 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) IV. 278:
The verra state itsel, sir, would suffer shipwrack.

II. v. In vbl.n. shipping, a landing-place, pier, quay.w.Lth. 1795 Stat. Acc.¹ XVII. 494:
The state of the landing-places, or shippings, as they are called.