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

So as to transport.

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.

uation, 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…

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

West 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.

r the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

er Cap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.

hich a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [Prov. Eng.]

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.]

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.