Word Meanings - TROOPSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.

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• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• TRANSPORTINGLY
  So as to transport.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• CONVEYANCER
  One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORTMENT
  The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• TRANSPORTANT
  Transporting; as, transportant love. Dr. H. More.
• FITTABLE
  Suitable; fit. Sherwood.
• FITT
  See FIT
• CONVEYANCE
  The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. found the conveyances in law
• FITTER
  1. One who fits or makes to fit; esp.: One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress. One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other. 2. A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according