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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Transporting, vbl. n. Also: -yng, -eng, transportting. [e.m.E. transporting (1500).] The action of Transport v.
1. The action of conveying a. Persons or things. Also fig. b. specif. Goods, by way of trade.a., b. 1558 Treas. Acc. X 374.
To underlie the law for transporting of quheit, malt [etc.] … to Berwik 1561 Treas. Acc. XI 58.
Thair licence … for transporting of leid uris and uthir mettals 1562 Treas. Acc. XI 217.
Expensis debursit be him upoun the transporting of ane sacart a1578 Pitsc. II 16/19.
In deliuerance of the ȝoung quene and transportting hir out of Lythtgow to Stirling 1578 Conv. Burghs I 60.
That oure natioun may hawe hoyis for transporting of thair guidis fra Handwarp 1579 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 306.
For transporting of xxiiii geistis out of the kingis laidinar 1585 Acts III 426/2.
The transporting of the saidis nolt and scheip … in grite nowmeris and driftis 1591 Edinb. B. Rec. V 54.
The greitt transporting of quheitt interpryset be certane ungodlie personis 1594 Misc. Spald. C. II 126.
Ye … ar … accusit … of transporting, careing, and away taking … be sea, of George, sumtyme erle of Huntlie 1596 Dalr. II 445/3.
Anent the transporteng of the armie from the Inglis bordouris 1597–8 Household Bks. Jas. VI and Anne 31 Jan.
Payit to Henry Warlaw for transporting sex laidis hering out of Glascow to Haliridhous 1688–9 Glasgow B. Rec. III 514.
To workmen and karteris for transporting ammunitionfig. 1597 James VI Dæmonol. (STS) 28/32.
As to their [sc. witches'] forme of extasie and spirituall transporting, it is certaine that the soules going out of the bodie, is the onely difinition of naturall death
c. = Transportatio(u)n(e n. 1 b.1675 Acts Sederunt ii 118.
Continueing his impresonment … till there be ane occasion for transporting of him beyond seas
2. = Transportatio(u)n(e n. 2, applied to a schoolmaster1657 Cramond Kirk S. I.
The charges that the schoolmaster had been put to in his transporting
3. a. The action of changing the location of something. b. The continuing or extending of an architectural feature, etc.a. 1574 Glasgow B. Rec. (MC) 6.
For the transportyng of the gallows … furth of the auld accustomat place, sa neir hands the toun 1660 Conv. Burghs III 516.
The supplicatione … for transporting of thair mercat croce frome ane obscuir … place [sc. at Elgin] … to a moir publict and eminent placeb. 1614 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 343.
For transporting and reding of the vout under the chapill to the kitching vout 1620 Dumbarton B. Rec. App. i 7.
For transporting the northe yle … [£13 6 s. 2 d.] … to Mathow … in … payment for transporting the northe ylle
