tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Our destroyer got within a hundred yards or so of the shore when we had to tranship into a picquet boat owing to the shallow water.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir
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 FitzGibbon, Mary
"Then you can tranship your goods outside or I'll take them on, as you like."
From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold
From such a ship it might be necessary—as it was with St. Paul and the soldiers to whose care he was committed—to tranship into another vessel proceeding directly to Italy.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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 Ray, G. Whitfield
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
As there are rapids between Samarra and Bagdad, it was not possible to float the rafts right down to Bagdad, and consequently everything had to be transhipped to the railway.
From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.
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 came the work of transhipping stores from the capacious holds of the South American vessel.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
After transhipping to the Donaldson liner Saturnia, which was nearly hit by bombs from an aeroplane, they were sent to Alexandria by the Minnetonka.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.
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 Rainey, W. (William)
We would have the devil’s own time transhipping, if there were.”
From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen
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