Shipping

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Ship
2. a. Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
3. a. Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
4. n. The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
5. n. The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.