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'bout ship
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English
Verb
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en intransitive nautical en about ship to tack through 180 degrees.
`Very well, then; there are two alternatives before us. One is to 'bout ship, and try and run for some port in the whale-boat, which would be a sufficiently risky proceeding, and the other to sail or row on up the river, and see where we come to.'