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Webster 1913 Edition


Shipshape

Ship′shapeˊ

,
Adj.
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner’s mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a
shipshape
orthodox manner.
De Quincey.
Keep everything
shipshape
, for I must go
Tennyson.

Ship′shapeˊ

,
adv.
In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.