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shiply en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English *schipli, from Old English sciplīċ (“naval, relating to a fleet”), equivalent to ship + -ly. Compare shiplike.

Meanings

1. Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.
   • There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades. 1953, William Sansom, Pleasures strange and simple:
   • They anchored at the island, which they had named Bear Island, for several days while they worked on their ship; repairing sails and doing shiply things of which Jacob still had little inkling. 2012, Stuart Wilson, Ice Haven:
   • But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs. 1942, Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water:

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