transitive. ‘To import goods prohibited’ (Johnson); to smuggle. Obsolete.

transitive. To convey (goods) clandestinely into (or out of) a country or district, in order to avoid payment of legal duties, or in contravention of…

transitive. To land or smuggle (illicit or contraband goods); to bring into a country illegally and secretly.

Chiefly Scottish. to run the cutter: to evade a revenue cutter, as when engaged in smuggling; (hence more generally) to engage in smuggling, esp…