aship
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]aship (not comparable)
- (US, dated, rare) On or onto a ship.
- 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 17, in A Tramp Abroad[1], Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 154:
- […] it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore.
- 1912, Charles E. Young, chapter 6, in Dangers of the Trail in 1865[2], Geneva, NY: Press of W.F. Humphrey, page 116:
- then the stern line was thrown aship, and the boat was off