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See shippen. ship-fever (ship'fever), n. Typhus fever, as common on board crowded ships. See fever. shipful (ship'ful), n. [ The owner of a ship-holder (ship'holder), n. ship or of shipping; a ship-owner. A compact and port ship-jack (ship'jak), n . able form of hydraulic jack used for lifting ships and other heavy objects. A number of such may be used in combination, according to the weight to be lifted. E. H. Knight. ship-keeper (ship'kē"pėr), n. 1. A watchman employed to take care of a ship. If the captains from New Bedford think it policy to lower for whales, they leave the ve el in charge of a competent person, usually the cooper-the office being known as ship - keeper . Fisheries of the U. S., V. ii. 222. 2. An officer of a man-of-war who seldom goes on shore. shiple (ship'les), a. [ ship + -le .] Desti- tute of ships. While the lone shepherd, near the shiple main, Sees o'er the hills advance the long-drawn funeral train. Rogers , Ode to Superstition. or only in the adverbial phrase on shipboard: shiplett (ship'let), n. [ as, to go on shipboard or a - shipboard. Let him go on shipboard . Abp . Bramhall . They had not been a - shipboard above a day when they unluckily fell into the hands of an Algerine pirate. Add is on , Spectator, No. 198. ship-boat (ship'bōt), n. A ship's boat; a small boat. The greatest ve els cast anker, and conueighed al theyr vytailes and other nece aries to lande with theyr shippe boates. whelmed. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on [America, ed. Arber, p. 111). The ship - boat, striking against her ship, was over Milton, Hist. Moscovia, v. A ship-worm. Carried or trans