Definition of carrying

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

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Cesspipe :: Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..
Main-hamper :: Main-hamper (n.) A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
Knapsack :: Knapsack (v. t.) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler..
Fruiter :: Fruiter (a.) A ship for carrying fruit.
Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail..
Snuffbox :: Snuffbox (n.) A small box for carrying snuff about the person.
Carriage :: Carriage (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying..
Bombard :: Bombard (n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer..
Plant :: Plant (n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad..
Vectitation :: Vectitation (n.) The act of carrying, or state of being carried..
Carriage :: Carriage (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage..
Onerary :: Onerary (a.) Fitted for, or carrying, a burden..
Tender :: Tender (n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water..
Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials..
Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.
Rapine :: Rapine (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
Belligerent :: Belligerent (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war.
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