Verb

(en verb)

To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.

* Fielding

Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.

To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

* Dryden

In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

(Jonathan Swift)

To bow.

* Shakespeare

The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.

To evade doing something.

To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.

* 2007 , Alexander U. Case, Sound FX: unlocking the creative potential of recording studio effects (page 183)

The music is ducked under the voice.

Verb

(shipp)

(label) To send by water-borne transport.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

The timber wasshipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}

(label) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).

(label) To engage to serve on board a vessel.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,

With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped , have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be;

(label) To embark on a ship.

To put in its place.

(label) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.

(label) To pass (from one person to another).

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}

To go all in.

(label) To trade or send a player to another team.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}

Verb

(shipp)

(fandom) To write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.

I ship Kirk and Spock in my ''Star Trek'' fan fiction.