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It is a city in the People's Republic of China.
From the city's name comes the term "shanghai" which means to trick or compel a person to work for you or become enlisted in your enterprise. Perhaps from the practice used to get men to crew ships in Shanghai in the early days of European trade.
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What was the main reason for going to war with Britain 1812?
Shanghaiing (taking by force) US sailors on the open sea.
What was the act of kidnapping men and forcing them to work on ships?
Shanghaiing refers to the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors.
What does shanghaiing mean in the book outsiders?
In "The Outsiders," the term "shanghaiing" refers to the act of kidnapping or coercing someone, often to serve on a ship. It highlights the brutal reality of how some individuals, particularly those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, can be forced into dangerous situations against their will. The concept is used to illustrate the harshness of street life and the lack of agency faced by characters in the novel.
How do you use Shanghaiing in a sentence?
The word shanghaiing is a verbal noun (gerund) for the practice of using trickery, deception, or violence to conscript men to work as sailors on ships. The verb form is shanghai, named after the port in China that these ships often frequented in the mid nineteenth century. Example sentence: The practice of shanghaiing was a form of involuntary servitude.
Can you write a sentence with the word shanghaiing?
read the book outsiders it gives you and example
Shanghai is a major city in China while shanghai is used as kidnapping. Which word came first?
The city came first. The term "shanghai" originally referred specifically to kidnapping men and forcing them to be sailors on a ship. It's believed that this came to be known as "shanghaiing" due to the fact that many of these ships were headed to Shanghai, it being a major seaport.
Is shanghaiing illegal?
No, it is not. It is kidnapping, a felony offense. To "Shanghai" someone is a slang term meaning to kidnap them and force them into involuntarily performing some type of work. It derives from the days when sailors in the Chinese seaport of Shanghai (and other port cities) would be kidnapped and forced to work on outbound merchant vessels that had insufficient crew with which to sail. It is somewhat analogous to the use by the British Royal Navy of "press gangs" when the same thing would happen when British warships lacked enough crew to sail them. The difference being - the Navy was operating under prevailing English Law of the time.
List plural words ending in double i?
Skiing, radii, genii (plural radius and plural genius).And of course, Hawaii, Hawaiian, taxiing, safariing, shanghaiing and also Shiite.Wii could be considered a word of the English language, but it is more of a personal name for a gaming system.Also, the abbreviation Ascii is sometimes treated and pronounced as a word.Another word is inferii (The plural for inferius).
What English words have ii?
Hawaii aalii aaliis alibiing assagaiing assegaiing bacchii chivariing congii coniine coniines denarii euphausiid euphausiids filariid filariids gastrocnemii genii medii nauplii obiism obiisms piing radii reduviid reduviids retiarii safariing sartorii saturniid saturniids senarii septenarii sextarii shanghaiing shiitake shiitakes skiing skiings splenii taxiing teiid teiids tholeiite tholeiites tholeiitic torii trapezii triiodothyronine triiodothyronines turfskiing turfskiings waterskiing waterskiings zombiism zombiisms
What are some words that have double i?
radii. torii.5-letter wordsaalii, genii, medii, piing, radii, teiid, torii6-letter wordsaaliis, congii, obiism, skiing, teiids7-letter wordsbacchii, coniine, denarii, nauplii, obiisms, senarii, skiings, splenii, taxiing8-letter wordsalibiing, coniines, filariid, reduviid, retiarii, sartorii, sextarii, zombiism9-letter wordsfilariids, reduviids, safariing, saturniid, shiitakes, tholeiite, zombiisms10-letter wordsassagaiing, assegaiing, chivariing, euphausiid, saturniids, septenarii, tholeiites, tholeiitic, turfskiing11-letter wordseuphausiids, shanghaiing, turfskiings, waterskiing12-letter wordsgastrocnemii, waterskiings16-letter wordstriiodothyronine17-letter wordstriiodothyronines
What is the practice of forcing people into the navy called?
The practice used in the British Navy (among others) was called impressment and was used to fill ship's crews. It was also called "pressganging" for the "press gangs" (impressment teams) that performed the practice, often with violence or threats of violence. Impressment of nominally British-born American sailors was one cause of the War of 1812.The practice is colloquially called "Shanghaiing" - in the days of sailing vessels, ship Boarding Masters (responsible for finding able bodies for their ships) would literally kidnap much needed manpower from the bars at various ports. Those engaged in the practice of shanghaiing sailors were known as "crimps". Though primarily associated with the US northwestern ports, the term applies to any similar practice of impressing sailors into service against their will. It's hard to fight when you're stuck on a ship at sea also; your choices are either work or hope you can swim to shore.The term is believed to have originated from the port destination of Shanghai, China, a common destination for ships with abducted crews.The practice survived into the 20th century, until laws were finally passed in the US that ended the practice. However, it was normal practice in Iceland up until the 1970's
What has the author Dillon H Richards written?
Richard H. Dillon has written: 'Shanghaiing days' -- subject(s): Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Shanghaiing, History 'Perpetual motion & emotion' -- subject(s): Historians, Biography 'The search for Meriwether Lewis: from Tillamook to Grinder's Stand' -- subject(s): Library science 'Embarcadero' -- subject(s): Harbor, Voyages and travels 'Books and browsing in San Francisco' -- subject(s): Libraries, Booksellers and bookselling 'Indian Wars 1850-1890' -- subject(s): Wars, Indians of North America, Indian warfare 'Delta country' -- subject(s): Description and travel, History 'The legend of Grizzly Adams, California's greatest mountain man' -- subject(s): Biography, Trappers, Hunters 'Indian Wars' 'Burnt-out fires' -- subject(s): Modoc Indians, Wars, 1873 'North American Indian wars' -- subject(s): Wars, Indians of North America 'Bully Waterman & the voyage of the clipper Challenge, New York to San Francisco, 1851' -- subject(s): Challenge (Clipper), Description and travel, Voyages to the Pacific coast 'North American Indian Wars Dillion Ff' 'La Panza' 'Siskiyou Trail' -- subject(s): Discovery and exploration, Fur trade, Hudson's Bay Company 'Wells, Fargo detective' -- subject(s): Biography, Detectives, Wells, Fargo & Company 'High steel' -- subject(s): San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.) 'The hatchet men' -- subject(s): Chinese, Crime, Criminals, History, Tongs (Secret societies), Crime and criminals 'Exploring the Mother Lode country' -- subject(s): Gold discoveries, Guidebooks
