tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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We left England at the beginning of November 1894, and at Aden, where we were obliged to tranship, we picked up our camp furniture, which we had deposited there on our return from Wadi Hadhramout.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
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
The side tracks were full of loaded freight, and cars waiting to tranship at the wharf, the steamer which left Winnipeg two days before we did having only just arrived.
From A Trip to Manitoba by Mary FitzGibbon
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
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
It states further that this morphia is being transhipped in Kobe harbor to vessels bound for China.
From The Opium Monopoly by Ellen Newbold La Motte
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
The men went to work cheerily; easily divining my motive for transhipping the treasure, and being, of course, each in his own degree, as anxious for its safety as I was.
From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey
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
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
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
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