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shipping:

The noun shipping has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (4) transportation, shipping, transport -- (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)
2. shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels -- (conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry)

The verb ship has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (7) transport, send, ship -- (transport commercially)
2. ship -- (hire for work on a ship)
3. embark, ship -- (go on board)
4. ship -- (travel by ship)
5. ship -- (place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel")

yards:

The noun yard has 9 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (34) yard, pace -- (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride)
2. (12) yard, grounds, curtilage -- (the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard")
3. (1) yard -- (a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town")
4. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard -- (the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100)
5. cubic yard, yard -- (a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel))
6. yard -- (a tract of land where logs are accumulated)
7. yard, railway yard, railyard -- (an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines)
8. yard -- (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen)
9. yard -- (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock))

shipping yards

Dutch Merchant Ships
A relational database of Dutch Merchant Ships
http://Koopvaardijschepen.info