noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English schipping, shipping, from schip, ship ship + -ing
1.
a. : passage on a ship
took shipping for the continent
b. : ships
c. : the body of ships in one place or belonging to one port or country
that grim little castle crouched among the shipping at the quay — Ralph Hammond-Innes
reopened Boston harbor to the world's larger shipping — A.F.Harlow
2. obsolete : navigation
3. obsolete : voyage
4.
[Middle English schipping, shipping, from gerund of schippen, shippen to ship — more at ship ]
: the act or business of one that ships
the bulk of their shipping is handled by this method of distribution — Mary K. Moore