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transporter|trɑːnˈspɔətə(r), træn-|
[f. transport v. + -er1.]
1. One who transports.
1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §1 The said..Tanners or other person transporter of the same Lether. 1562–3Act 5 Eliz. c. 12 §4 No..Carrier, Buyer or Transporter of Corne. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 209 A thing usuall it is betweene Tripoly and Aleppo..to make tame Doues the speedy transporters of their letters. 1744J. Paterson Comm. Milton's P.L. 305 The transporter of departed souls into hell. 1906Times 21 Aug. 5/1 The result of the increased number of transporters is that the price of everything has fallen.
2. Any carrying apparatus; esp. a device for transporting coal from a quay or from one vessel to another. Also, a vehicle used to transport other vehicles or large pieces of machinery, etc., by road.
transporter-bridge, a bridge over a navigable waterway, high enough not to interfere with navigation, carrying a suspended platform or car which travels from bank to bank and conveys the traffic. So transporter car.
1893Westm. Gaz. 25 July 5/2 Mr. Temperley's ingenious contrivance for coaling rapidly... The ‘transporter’, as it is called, is made of steel, beam-shaped,..and fitted with an automatic travelling carriage suspended from the lower flange of the beam. 1894Ibid. 31 July 7/1 The ‘B’ Fleet has now been coaled with exceptional rapidity and without recourse to the Temperly transporter. 1904Ibid. 2 Sept. 10/2 The Runcorn Transporter Bridge, now being erected, has its towers made wholly of steel. They rise 190 ft. above high-water level. Ibid., The transporter car..is suspended from the trolly by steel-wire ropes. a1944K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) xi. 68 The tanks were to move by transporter. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xxi. 206 In the Sahara there were only Peugeots, and Landrovers, and the smart little cars that came in by transporter. |