Definitions for transships

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transships trans·ship

Spelling: [trans-ship]

IPA: /trænsˈʃɪp/

Transships is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 539 anagrams from letters in transships (ahinprssst).

Definitions for transships

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 transships

First recorded in 1785-95; trans- + ship¹

Examples for transships

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

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

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

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.