Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHIP'-BUILD-ING, or SHIP'-BILD-ING
SHIP'-BUILD-ER, or SHIP'-BILD-ERSHIP-CAR-PEN-TER
SHIP'-BUILD-ING, or SHIP'-BILD-ING, n. [ship and build.]
Naval architecture; the art of constructing vessels for navigation, particularly ships and other vessels of a large kind, bearing masts; distinction from boat-building.
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