Found 2 items, similar to transport ship.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: transport ship transport ship n : a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment
English → English (gcide) Definition: transport ship Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. [1913 Webster] The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 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 . [1913 Webster] 3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. [1913 Webster] With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge. [1913 Webster] 4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile. [1913 Webster]