tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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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
I will remain hove-to until you have secured your prisoners below—I have not time to tranship them now; and when you have done that you will be pleased to bear up and join the convoy.
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Hodgson, Edward S.
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)
The King, persuaded by Richards, ordered one down from Cawsand, and had already used it once or twice to meet his larger craft somewhere in a good offing and tranship their cargoes.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Moreover, the galleon’s launch was a fine big lump of a boat; so we managed to tranship the whole and get it safely stowed away before sundown.
From The Log of a Privateersman by Rainey, W. (William)
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
The design of the embargo provision was to stop these neutrals from receiving any American goods until it was clearly established, before leaving an American port, that they would not be transhipped to Germany.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
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
At daybreak the work of transhipping the cargo was proceeded with before the miasmic mists that hid the shore had dispersed.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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)
The eastern entrance, however, perhaps can be used between the end of December and March, and in calm weather would offer little difficulty to the surfboats transhipping machinery from the steamers.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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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