Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRANS'PORT
TRANS'PORT, n.
- Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.
- 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.
- Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy.
- A convict transported or sentenced to exile.
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