ship, n.Definitions

A Ship fears fire more than water.

A Ship is like a body without a soul when without a man.

A Ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

A Ship is, in a storm, like a living creature thrown to the bestial fury of a mob

A Ship is like being in jail with the chance of being drowned.

A Ship is like a woman in that it too is also ever repairing.

A Ship is a complete creation endowed with character, individuality, qualities, and defects, by men whose hands launch her upon the water, and that other men shall learn to know with an intimacy surpassing the intimacy of men with men, to love with a love almost as great as that of men for women, and often as blind in its infatuated disregard for defects.

A Ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main... it is a state in itself... and the captain is its king.