take shipping

== English == === Verb === take shipping (third-person singular simple present takes shipping, present participle taking shipping, simple past took shipping, past participle taken shipping) (archaic) To embark on a ship. 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, London: Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye, “Henrie the thirde,” p. 140,[1] […] dyuerse noble men of the land, which helde against those statutes, were ridden toward Douer, and there entended to haue taken shipping for feare of the Barons 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, London: Lackington et al., Volume 3, Chapter 1, pp. 13-14,[3] We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.