take shipping

Verb

 * 1)  To embark on a ship.
 * 2) * 1569,, A Chronicle at Large, London: Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye, “Henrie the thirde,” p.140,
 * dyuerse noble men of the land, which helde against those statutes, were ridden toward Douer, and there entended to haue taken shipping for feare of the Barons
 * 1) * 1818,, , London: Lackington et al., Volume3, Chapter1, pp.13-14,
 * We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
 * 1) * 1818,, , London: Lackington et al., Volume3, Chapter1, pp.13-14,
 * We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.