[f. TENDER sb.1] trans. To ship (mails, luggage, etc.) on board a tender.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 4 Dec., 12/1. The work of ‘tendering’ and stowing the bags accomplished, the usual special train run on occasions of the kind left Plymouth Docks at 6.43 p.m. … and arrived at Paddington at 10.53 p.m.—247 miles in 250 minutes.
