shipbreach

English

Alternative forms

  • ship-breach

Etymology

From Middle English schipbreche, schipbrüche, from Old English scipbryċe, scipbroc, scipġebroc (shipwreck; that which washes ashore from shipwreck, wreckage, literally ship-breaking), equivalent to ship + breach. Cognate with Scots schipbrek (shipwreck), Dutch schipbreuk (shipwreck), German Schiffbruch (shipwreck).

Noun

shipbreach (uncountable)

  1. Shipwreck.
    • 1966, Bartholomaeus (Anglicus), Robert Steele, Medieval Lore:
      Also in shipbreach men flee to a board, and are oft saved in peril.
    • 1999, Robert M. Torrance, Robert M. Torrance:
      [...] and the third with an harp, and they please so shipmen, with likeness of song, that they draw them to peril and to shipbreach [shipwreck], but the sooth [truth] is, that they were strong [w]hores, that drew men that passed by them to poverty and to mischief.
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