transship
to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
to change from one ship or other conveyance to another.
Origin of transship
1- Also tranship.
Other words from transship
- trans·ship·ment, noun
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How to use transship in a sentence
We might have trans-shipped into some craft quite as, if not even more, unfortunate than ourselves.
Dick Leslie's Luck | Harry CollingwoodIron ore especially, is brought here in enormous quantities by boat and trans-shipped to Pittsburgh.
The Greatest Highway in the World | AnonymousIt was on one of the three great highways from the east to the west, and here all cargoes had to be trans-shipped.
Biblical Geography and History | Charles Foster KentEverything was required to be trans-shipped at Buenos Aires so that it might be subject to duty.
The South American Republics Part I of II | Thomas C. Dawson
British Dictionary definitions for transship
tranship
/ (trænsˈʃɪp) /
to transfer or be transferred from one vessel or vehicle to another
Derived forms of transship
- transshipment or transhipment, noun
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