twin-ship

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English

Noun

twin-ship (countable and uncountable, plural twin-ships)

  1. Alternative form of twinship
    • 1875, The English Channel Steam Ship Company, Limited:
      All classes of Her Majesty's subjects, chief constructors at shipbuilding yards, artists, medical men, clergymen, lawyers, ladies, crowd the columns of the newspapers, and all with the same story, the absence of sea-sickness on board the twin-ship, owing to the absence of pitching, and the very slight rolling or tremulous motion experienced.
    • 2002, Bernardine Bishop, ‎Angela Foster, & ‎Josephine Klein, Ideas in Practice, →ISBN, page 23:
      Engel suggests that twins might exploit the narcissistic advantages of twin-ship precisely to avoid negotiating the Oedipus conflict.