tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Moreover, the galleon’s launch was a fine big lump of a boat; so we managed to tranship the whole and get it safely stowed away before sundown.
From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey
We experience the greatest possible inconvenience from the change, both as regards passengers and goods; coals we have not attempted to tranship.
From Report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade on the London, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and on the Birmingham and Shrewsbury Districts by Samuel Laing
Of course I’ll be very willin’ to tranship ye into a homeward-bounder, if we happens to fall in with one—and you really wants to go.
From Turned Adrift by Edward S. Hodgson
"Evidently you intend to tranship your precious cargo?"
From Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
There we tranship into the Buenos Ayres boat, and proceed one hundred and fifty miles up the river to that city.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray
The EU and 23 nations around the Mediterranean have signed an agreement, which states that those species cannot be "retained on board, transhipped, landed, transferred, stored, sold or displayed or offered for sale".
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
But many Vietnamese industries use components imported from China, and have no clear definition for what Washington considers "transhipped" goods or what percentage of its parts must be locally produced to avoid higher taxes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
For instance, transhipped goods have been specifically levied as part of Vietnam's trade deal with the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
The coffin was transhipped in solemn state across Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The design of the embargo provision was to stop these neutrals from receiving any American goods until it was clearly established, before leaving an American port, that they would not be transhipped to Germany.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Kazakhstan has close ties with China, supplying minerals, metals and energy to its eastern neighbour and transhipping goods between China and Europe.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2022
This promised a long, wearisome voyage across the Atlantic, and doubly justified me in transhipping the treasure to the schooner.
From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey
Three carts came along, and while the process of transhipping into them was going on, the "Preventer" men, led by Turnbull, quietly came from their concealment, and with a sudden rush surrounded the smugglers.
From Looking Seaward Again by Walter Runciman
Then came the work of transhipping stores from the capacious holds of the South American vessel.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The wind was fresh enough to raise a slight sea, causing the two vessels to chafe considerably as they lay closely locked together for the purpose of transhipping the coal.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Raphael Semmes
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