'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)

1. (intransitive, nautical) Alternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”)
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `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.'