Obs. [f. END sb. + -SHIP. Cf. township.] A small suburb, a hamlet.

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1589.  R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1590), 8. All the picked yoouth, straind out of an whole Endship.

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1673.  Bunyan, Barren Fig-tree, 38. They shake the whole Family, the End-ship, the whole Town.

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1701.  De Foe, Free-h. Plea agst. Stock-j. Elect., 18. They are not to be Nam’d among the List of the most despicable Endships, or Village[s] in the County.

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