"'bout ship" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "'bout ships",
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    },
    {
      "form": "'bout shipping",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "'bout ship",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "'bout ship",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout shipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout shipped",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "to tack through 180 degrees",
          "word": "about ship"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "`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.'",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”)"
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          "about ship#English"
        ],
        [
          "tack",
          "tack"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, nautical) Alternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”)"
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "'bout ship"
}

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    {
      "form": "'bout ships",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout shipping",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout ship",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout ship",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout shipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'bout shipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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    }
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          "extra": "to tack through 180 degrees",
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "`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.'",
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      ],
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        "(intransitive, nautical) Alternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”)"
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  "word": "'bout ship"
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