I WONDER WHAT OWNER-SHIP IS UNDER ADMIRALTY LAW AND THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, UNDER CROWN TEMPLE LAW, FROM THE CITY OF LONDON, FOR KNIGHT TEMPLAR MASON CORPORATE COLONIZATION WITH ROYAL CHARTER, VIA WORSHIPFUL COMPANIES OF THE CITY OF LONDON? ship (n.) Look up ship at Dictionary Old English scip ship, boat, from Proto-Germanic *skipam (cognates: Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Gothic skip, Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Middle Dutch scip, Dutch schip, Old High German skif, German Schiff), Germanic noun of obscure origin [Watkins]. Others suggest perhaps originally tree cut out or hollowed out, and derive it from PIE root *skei- to cut, split. Now a vessel of considerable size, adapted to navigation; the Old English word was used for small craft as well, and definitions changed over time; in 19c., distinct from a boat in having a bowsprit and three masts, each with a lower, top, and topgallant mast. French esquif, Italian schifo are Germanic loan-words. Phrase ships that pass in the night is from Longfellows poem Elizabeth in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863). Figurative use of nautical runs a tight ship (i.e., one that does not leak) is attested from 1965.
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