[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRANSPORT; transportation.
1500. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 391. After the transporting of the same to sell the said warres.
1574. in Maitl. Cl. Misc., I. 101. Transporting of certane quheit furth of this realme without lycence.
1612. J. More, in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 125. The transporting of Sir John Ogle’s regiment to my Lord Chandos.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 209. Clay is not dear, unless in the Carriage and Transporting of it.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ix. II. 531. He would be no party to the transporting of the prince into France.
b. Naut. (See quot.) Also attrib.
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 156. Transporting, moving a ship from one situation to another by hawsers only. Ibid., Transporting-blocks, two snatch-blocks, fitted on each side above the taffrail to admit a hawser, when transporting the ship from one place to another.
c. Sc. See TRANSPORT v. 2 a, b.
1707. [see TRANSPORT v. 2 b].
1904. R. Small, Hist. U. P. Congregat., I. 446. In September 1825 transporting calls came up to Mr. Ritchie from Dunfermline … and from the Potterrow. Ibid., 469. Mr. M’Gilchrist’s mind was not up to the transporting point yet.
