Middle English Dictionary Entry
ship-craft n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ship-craft n. |
| Etymology | From ship n. & craft n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Navigation, sailing; also, skill in navigation; as an exclamation: all aboard! to sea! (b) shipbuilding; (c) a ship; -- used fig.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)118a/a : Þis sterre..is I-clepid stella maris..for it lediþ in þe see men þat sailiþ & haueþ schipcraft [L scienciam nauigalem].
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)113a : Þere nys none gretter perille in schipcraft þan when þe grene tymber makeþ the schip to grenne and to gape.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)15/46 : I neyghed to a see-banke; and for ferde of the beestes, 'shipcraft' I cryde.
b
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)42/67 : Of shippe-craft can I right noght, Of ther makyng haue I no merke.
c
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)36/29 : The king sent..to gete þingis that myght abide with thayme that their ship-crafte brake not in the see.