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The act of transporting or riding on a sled.

; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.

A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge. Sleigh bell, a small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.…

To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson.

Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. Where the deep transported mind may soar. Milton. Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune. Addison.

A view of the universe of brighter stars as it would appear to an observer transported into space outside or beyond our universe of stars.

The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe. Shak. Fireflies that suspire In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning.

A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the number of miles for which it is carried.…

impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals .

The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.

ny unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

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

To transport on a truck or trucks.

A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. [Eng.]

A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.