tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- transhipment noun
- transhipper noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Will tranship Sir Reginald Fosterdyke and Mr. Bramsdean as soon as possible.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
We left England at the beginning of November 1894, and at Aden, where we were obliged to tranship, we picked up our camp furniture, which we had deposited there on our return from Wadi Hadhramout.
From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore
"Then you can tranship your goods outside or I'll take them on, as you like."
From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold
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