Home › Words › S › shipkeepingshipkeepingshipkeeping means the work of a shipkeeper, taking care of a ship when its crew is away.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, shipkeeping ranks #7,379 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom ship + keeping.nounThe work of a shipkeeper, taking care of a ship when its crew is away.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).