Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRANS'PORT, n.

1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.
2. A ship or vessel employed for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination.
3. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy.
4. A convict transported or sentenced to exile.