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Something that serves as a means of transportation
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conveyance
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ No wheeled conveyances of any kind are allowed in the park. ▪ The company relies on trains for the conveyance of goods. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All these are a part of the conveyance of meaning. ▪ Familiarity with two basic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conveyance \Con*vey"ance\ (k[o^]n*v[=a]"ans), n. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. --Prescott. Following the river downward, there is conveyance ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Conveyance may refer to: Conveyance (horse) , an American Thoroughbred racehorse Conveyance, the documentation of the transfer of ownership of land from one party to another—see conveyancing Public conveyance , a shared passenger transportation service ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. document effecting a property transfer the transmission of information [syn: imparting , impartation ] something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: transport ] act of transferring property title from one person to another [syn: conveyance ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 An act or instance of conveying. 2 #(lb en archaic) A manner of conveying one's thoughts, a style of communication. 3 A means of transporting, especially a vehicle. 4 (lb en legal) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "act of conveying," from convey + -ance . Meaning "document by which something is legally conveyed" is from 1570s; sense "means of transportation" is attested from 1590s. Related: Conveyanced ; conveyancing .
Usage examples of conveyance.
On November 23, Adams bid her goodbye and started for Philadelphia, and again by public conveyance, John Briesler his sole companion.
HADLY May 30: 76 Mr RAWSON Sr What we have recd by Tho: Houey the past month is not the cheifest of our wants as you have love for poor wounded I pray let us not want for these following medicines if you have not a speedy conveyance of them I pray send on purpose they are those things mentioned in my former letter but to prevent future mistakes I have wrote them att large wee have great want with the greatest halt and speed let us be supplyed.
He had learned that he had an ear for languages and he now was fluent in enough tongues and dialects to make himself understood in almost any part of the globe that his nearly constant travels crisscrossed via airplane, ship, and all manner of other land and water conveyances.
Upon rounding the end of the conveyance, Colton immediately espied the ensnared hems and the swiftly separating garments.
Lowood Fell to meet the conveyance which was to take her back to Gateshead, I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote.
With matters to attend to close at hand Kibei will use other conveyance.
Beside and behind the conveyance, at some small distance, rode more than four hands of males, clad as Lialt and Ceralt had been, in leathers and belts of shining metal.
Congress had levied, according to the rule of uniformity, a specific tax upon all carriages, for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by, or for any person, for his own use, or to be let out for hire, or for the conveying of passengers.
Similarly, a contract for the conveyance of water beyond the limits of a State did not prevent the State from prohibiting such conveyance.
I moved my toes about within the pelts as I studied the skies, and quickly the sway and creak of the conveyance caused my eyelids to grow heavy.
The marshals perspiring, shouting, fretting, galloping about, urging this one forward, ordering this one back, ranged the thousands of conveyances and cavaliers in a long line, shaped like a wide open crescent.
I found a good conveyance at the farm, and the man promised to drive me in to Gorice by dinner-time.
It would be a hard job to get the heavy conveyance out, and would need the united strength of men, bullocks, and horses.
When the horses were in the stable there was a double line of rustic conveyances along the road: carts, cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and age, tipping forward on their shafts or else tipping backward with the shafts up in the air.
Hungarian connexions, and from the snares of the banditti, as well as upon the spoils of the dead body, and his arrival at Paris, from whence there was such a short conveyance to England, whither he was attracted, by far other motives than that of filial veneration for his native soil.