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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.

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.]

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

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

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

rn, reaching to the knees. -- Trunk line, the main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance. -- Trunk turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

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

Not frankable; incapable of being sent free by public conveyance.

The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage. [Obs.] Bacon.

ay be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.

affidavit or oath (Law), an affidavit or oath made in extrajudicial matter. -- Voluntary conveyance (Law), a conveyance without valuable consideration. -- Voluntary escape (Law), the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff. -- Voluntary jurisdiction. (Eng. Eccl. Law) See Contentious jurisdiction,…

A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made. Burrill.

Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water. Shak. Boats prepared for waftage to and fro. Drayton.

Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.] Milton.

r right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty. [Written also warrandise.] Craig.

Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.

A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.

poleax. Fairholt. Craig. -- Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment of the principal, with an understanding that the profits in the mean time shall be received by the mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest. Burrill. -- Wel…