Definition of sporting

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Sported (imp. & p. p.) of Spor.

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Drogher :: Drogher (n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher..
Conveyance :: Conveyance (n.) The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage..
Leg :: Leg (n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
Fomes :: Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites..
Portage :: Portage (n.) The act of carrying or transporting.
Disportment :: Disportment (n.) Act of disporting; diversion; play.
Cart :: Cart (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles..
Sportingly :: Sporting (a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports..
Logging :: Logging (n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market..
Curtail Dog :: Curtail dog () A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting..
Skylarking :: Skylarking (n.) The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing..
Sleigh :: Sleigh (n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge..
Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled..
Wardian :: Wardian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman..
Transporting :: Transporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transpor.
Transportingly :: Transportingly (adv.) So as to transport.
Rapturous :: Rapturous (a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause..
Log :: Log (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
Crane :: Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick..
Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
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