tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Cura�ao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape.
From Time Magazine Archive
Splendid news came along on the 9th to the effect that the New Zealand Government's steamer 'Tutanekai' would tranship our stores from the 'Rachel Cohen' on the 15th and sail direct for the island.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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 Burleigh, Bennet
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 Wingfield, Lewis
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
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