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† tranˈsportage Obs.
[f. as prec. + -age. Cf. portage.]
= transportation 1, transport.
1562J. Shute Cambini's Turk. Wars 9 Almost..oute of hope of any transportage for them. 1600Holland Livy xliii. xii. 1163 He should give order for their transportage thither. 1631Heywood 1st Pt. Fair Maid of West i. i. Wks. 1874 II. 273 Such gold fit for transportage as I have, I'le beare along. 1637― Royall Ship 12 Vessels..for the transportage of graine from one province to another.
So tranˈsportal, tranˈsportance [see -al1, -ance: cf. importance], transport, conveyance.
1837Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 9 Let the powers of transportal be such. 1839― Voy. Nat. ix. (1879) 187 To explain the transportal of these gigantic masses of rock. 1859― Orig. Spec. iv. (1866) 104 So as to favour..the transportal of their pollen from flower to flower. 1893Sir H. H. Howorth Glacial Nightmare II. 680 The transportal of drift in directions opposite to the movements of the ice.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. ii. 12 Be thou my Charon, And giue me swift transportance to those fields. c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. Comm. (1857) II. 105 Nor would Homer have any one believe the personal transportance of Sarpedon by Sleep and Death. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 32 There's no fashion knowne, In forraine Courts,..But by transportance it doth come to thee. 1882G. Macdonald Castle Warlock xxxi, A doubtful denial of transportance. |