ship fever en · NOUN
Etymology
It was once common in the crowded conditions on ships.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A form of typhus fever.
"No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill."
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| ship-fever | alternative | lexicographic |