Obs. [f. as prec. + -AGE. Cf. PORTAGE.] = TRANSPORTATION 1, TRANSPORT.
1562. J. Shute, Cambini’s Turk. Wars, 9. Almost … oute of hope of any transportage for them.
1600. Holland, Livy, XLIII. xii. 1163. He should give order for their transportage thither.
1631. Heywood, 1st Pt. Fair Maid of W., I. i. Wks. 1874, II. 273. Such gold fit for transportage as I have, I’le beare along. Ibid. (1637), Royall Ship, 12. Vessels … for the transportage of graine from one province to another.
1837. Darwin, in Life & Lett. (1887), II. 9. Let the powers of transportal be such. Ibid. (1839), Voy. Nat., ix. (1879), 187. To explain the transportal of these gigantic masses of rock. Ibid. (1859), Orig. Spec., iv. (1866), 104. So as to favour … the transportal of their pollen from flower to flower.
1893. Sir H. H. Howorth, Glacial Nightmare, II. 680. The transportal of drift in directions opposite to the movements of the ice.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., III. ii. 12. Be thou my Charon, And giue me swift transportance to those fields.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. Comm. (1857), II. 105. Nor would Homer have any one believe the personal transportance of Sarpedon by Sleep and Death.
1615. Brathwait, Strappado (1878), 32. There’s no fashion knowne, In forraine Courts,… But by transportance it doth come to thee.
1882. G. Macdonald, Castle Warlock, xxxi. A doubtful denial of transportance.
