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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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152 words match “TRANSPORT”

TRANSPORT v. 7 definitions

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

TRANSPORTABILITY n.

The quality or state of being transportable.

TRANSPORTABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being transported.

Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.

TRANSPORTANCE n.

Transportation. [Obs.] "Give me swift transportance." Shak.

TRANSPORTANT a.

Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

TRANSPORTATION n. 2 definitions

The act of transporting, 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.

One who transports.

TRANSPORTING a.

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

TRANSPORTINGLY adv.

So as to transport.

TRANSPORTMENT n.

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation. [R.]

MISTRANSPORT v.

To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

upport having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

aneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially con…

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.