tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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"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
I therefore set to work at once to tranship them—a most difficult operation, the ship being on weather side of island, and the send alongside very heavy.
From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne
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
Oliver agreed with them that they should tranship three or four of their number into the second mate's boat.
From Tessa 1901 by Louis Becke
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
"I think we'll wait until the cases are transhipped," Walthew said with a smile.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
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
Enormous hogsheads are shipped on the boats, and the transhipping them is often a dangerous business, if we may judge from our own experiences.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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
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
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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