Trans·port n.
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. --Arbuthnot.
2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope.
Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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transport ship
n : a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment