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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..

Log :: Log (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

Conveyance :: Conveyance (n.) The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage..

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..

Sport :: Sporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spor.

Transport :: Transport (v.) 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..

Owling :: Owling (v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

Portage :: Portage (n.) The act of carrying or transporting.

Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

Collier :: Collier (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal..

Sledding :: Sledding (n.) The act of transporting or riding on a sled.

Carrying :: Carrying (n.) The act or business of transporting from one place to another.

Express :: Express (n.) A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality..

Crate :: Crate (n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit..

Disporting :: Disporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispor.

Sport :: Sport (n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting..

Carriage :: Carriage (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying..

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..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

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