ship n
2 Comb ~ halfpenny: early nineteenth-century copper coin.
1983 ROWE 12 In 1851 the government prohibited the further import of [Prince Edward Island currency] in vain... Enough remained that when in [1862] certain parties, for their own purposes, refused to receive them and the 'ship' halfpennies, out of the heterogeneous mass of copper in circulation, considerable distress was caused among the poor.
