Definition of sporting

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Sportful (a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive..

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Rapturous :: Rapturous (a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause..
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..
Gill :: Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
Portage :: Portage (n.) The act of carrying or transporting.
Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
Leg :: Leg (n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
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..
Crate :: Crate (n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit..
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..
Logging :: Logging (n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market..
Disporting :: Disporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispor.
Skylarking :: Skylarking (n.) The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing..
Transportment :: Transportment (n.) The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation..
Voyageur :: Voyageur (n.) A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest..
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..
Transportation :: Transportation (n.) The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance..
Sportingly :: Sporting (a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports..
Carrying :: Carrying (n.) The act or business of transporting from one place to another.
Water Carriage :: Water carriage () Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
Transportingly :: Transportingly (adv.) So as to transport.
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