Ship"shape` (?), a. Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner.
De Quincey.
Keep everything shipshape, for I must go
Tennyson.
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Ship"shape` (?), adv. In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
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