ship, noun
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- EnglishShow more Transferred use (or adaptation) of general English expressions.
historical
Especially in the phrases ship of the desert, ship of the plains, ship of the veld: the ox-wagon.
1878 T.J. Lucas Camp Life & Sport 42The Cape ox-waggon is quite an institution, and has been called, like a camel, the ‘ship of the plains’.
1976 A.R. Willcox Sn Land 161This ox-drawn vehicle was as much the ship of the veld as it became later the ‘ship of the prairie’ in America.
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