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The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.

Same as Transshipment.

ing, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also transhipment.]

The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

nly, used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods. [Eng.] Estate of sufferance (Law), the holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. Blackstone. -- On sufferance, by mere toleration; as, to remain in a house…

aller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

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.