tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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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 Hodgson, Edward S.
I'll land you and your friend in Mudros Bay if I can, and if I have other orders I'll tranship you.'
From On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by Bridges, T. C. (Thomas Charles)
We could then on arrival tranship to her, and send the steamer back without letting those on board know anything of our errand.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell
Will tranship Sir Reginald Fosterdyke and Mr. Bramsdean as soon as possible.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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 Laing, Samuel
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 La Motte, Ellen Newbold
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
Netherlands is one of the oldest coffee countries of Europe, and for centuries has been a great transhipping agent, distributing coffee from her East Indian possessions and from America among her northern neighbors.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
Aden is a great transhipping port for coffee from Asia and Africa, and more than half its exports are re-exports from points outside of Arabia.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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 Overend, William Heysham
Among the groups thus scattered about, there was one smack which had quietly joined the fleet when the men were busy transhipping or “ferrying” the fish to the steam-carrier.
From The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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