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The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.

sporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton.

Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.

To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also tranship.]

The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also transhipment.]

The act of conveying or carrying over. [R.]

A motor car to which the current is conveyed by means of a trolley.

A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [Eng.]

d by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay.

Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.

The business of conveying goods on trucks.

One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. -- Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. -- Trumpet animalcule (Zoöl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. -- Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper…

f leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler. Locked up in chests and trunks. Shak.

n on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam. Trunnion plate (Gun.), a plate in the carriage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. -- Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon next before…

An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is cal…

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.