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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shipshape \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shipshape \Ship"shape`\, adv
In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
shipshape
adj : of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from
disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little
sailboat" [syn: {trim}, {well-kept}]
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