Dictionary entry

Transport (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Trans″port (?), n. [F. See Transport, v.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

The Romans... stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.

2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; — called also transport ship, transport vessel.

3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

With transport views the airy rule his own,

And swells on an imaginary throne. Pope.

Say not, in transports of despair,

That all your hopes are fled. Doddridge.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.