ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Shiply

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Shiply is an adjective meaning Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.

Meaning

Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.

Example Sentences

But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.
There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades.
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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shippy, naval, nautical, navalistic, marine, maritime.

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