'bout ship
English
Verb
'bout ship (third-person singular simple present 'bout ships, present participle 'bout shipping, simple past and past participle 'bout ship or 'bout shipped)
- (intransitive, nautical) Alternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”)
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure:
- `Very well, then; there are two alternatives before us. One is to 'bout ship, and try and run for some port in the whale-boat, which would be a sufficiently risky proceeding, and the other to sail or row on up the river, and see where we come to.'