tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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There was no time to tranship men--to leave the monster to its fate--empty--an idle prey.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
The King, persuaded by Richards, ordered one down from Cawsand, and had already used it once or twice to meet his larger craft somewhere in a good offing and tranship their cargoes.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
After that we shan’t sight anything much this side of the Cape, and it’ll hardly be worth your while to tranship then.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
Go anyplace that had a big spaceport, and manage to tranship out in secret.
From World Beyond Pluto by Stephen Marlowe
As for the 40-pounders it was found too inconvenient to tranship such heavy ordnance.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
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
Out of the three hundred reservists who had transhipped from the San Matias to the Pelikan but thirty-three were untouched by the British fire.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
Then this bully of an agent tells me the contract has been changed—read subparagraph 189-C or some such nonsense—and I'll be transhipping.
From Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison
If I am not mistaken she is the British man-o’-war schooner Gadfly, and her presence yonder affords Captain Tourville an opportunity to fulfil his promise of transhipping me.
From A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story by D.L. Mays
There are four hundred men employed here at the Landing in building scows and transhipping.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
One was taken to each dhow, and the work of transhipping the cattle began at once.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
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