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noun

Shipment n.

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

That which is shipped. "The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shipment" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Europe have made some use of the science thus evolved is evident from the simple fact that they are taking out of the United States every year about a million tons of our best phosphate rock for which they pay us at the point of shipment about five millions dollars; whereas, if this same phosphate were applied to our own soils that already suffer for want of phosphorus, it would make possible the production of nearly a billion dollars' worth ...

— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins

... that an American purchaser had been more successful at Ipswich, where in 1907 a Tudor house and corner-post, it was said, had been secured by a London firm for shipment to America. We are glad to hear that this report was incorrect, that the purchaser was an English lord, who re-erected the ...

— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... mind that the railroads are largely responsible for the spread of cholera? Did you ever hear of a railroad fumigating or disinfecting a car which had carried cholera? Consult the dates: First, of shipment by me; second, of receipt of the boar by you; and, third, of appearance of symptoms in the boar. As you say, because of washouts, the boar was five days on the way. Not until the seventh day after you receipted for same did the first symptoms appear. That makes ...

— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... you were getting up a corner in oil," said Frederick, ruefully, as he watched the packers at work boxing his most treasured paintings for shipment. ...

— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs

... day of June we gathered a crate of early raspberries and eight baskets of cherries. In the cool of the afternoon, these were placed in the wagon, and with my wife and the three younger children, I drove to the Maizeville Landing with our first shipment to Mr. Bogart. ...

— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe

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