English

Alternative forms

• ship-fever

Noun

ship fever ‎(uncountable)

1. A form of typhus fever.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, ch. 21:

     "No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill."

Synonyms

• hospital fever
• jail fever
• putrid fever