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sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also…

In sport; sportively. The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly. Hammond.

That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.

So as to transport.

pl. Etym: [Cf. Blencher.] (Sporting)

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying. Nine days employed in carriage. Chapman.

The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

on, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.

A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity betwe…

box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

ly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.

ght disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

Act of disporting; diversion; play. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

chances of winning future races; sometimes, similar information concerning other sports. [Sporting Slang]

t India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also droger.] Ham. Nar. Encyc.

any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.