Definitions for transship

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transship trans·ship

Spelling: [trans-ship]

IPA: /trænsˈʃɪp/

Transship is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 531 anagrams from letters in transship (ahinprsst).

Definitions for transship

verb (used with object)

1. to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.

verb (used without object)

1. to change from one ship or other conveyance to another.

Origin of transship

First recorded in 1785-95; trans- + ship¹

Examples for transship

In fact, I'd like you to take the schooner to the next port and transship the cargo.

Or they could depend on the chance of meeting some vessel homeward bound, to which they could transship before reaching Honolulu.

An examination was made, and the agents decided to transship the emigrants.

There the manœuvres, which were clearly in the nature of a trial trip, ended; and we hove to, to transship our passengers.

We had to transship to smaller boats to proceed to Basrah, about eighty miles inland.