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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conveyance
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 property documents - a lease and a conveyance - is very useful.
▪ For the conveyance of wounded men in ambulance trains, refugees, and prisoners of war, 13,318 special trains were provided.
▪ In 1987, there were 1.96 million conveyances worth £103 billion.
▪ In practice most mortgagees require to join in the conveyance.
▪ It is a conveyance of dreams: chrome, tail fins, pale blue bodywork.
▪ Joe was one of the most outrageous of the gamblers, not least of all in his choice of conveyance.
▪ Thus, transhipment prohibitions in relation to multi-modal or inter-modal means of conveyance amount to impossible conditions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conveyance

Conveyance \Con*vey"ance\ (k[o^]n*v[=a]"ans), n.

  1. 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 into the countries named in the text.
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

  2. The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.

    These pipes and these conveyances of our blood.
    --Shak.

  3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.

    Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance.
    --Stillingfleet.

  4. (Law) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.

    [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.
    --Clarendon.

  5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [Obs.]

    the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.
    --Hakewill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
conveyance

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.

Wiktionary
conveyance

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 group of persons to another. n. 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 group of persons to another. vb. (context legal transitive English) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

WordNet
conveyance
  1. n. document effecting a property transfer

  2. the transmission of information [syn: imparting, impartation]

  3. something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: transport]

  4. act of transferring property title from one person to another [syn: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying]

  5. the act of transporting something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transfer, transferral]

Wikipedia
Conveyance

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
  • A means of transport
  • Water conveyance, a commuter passenger boat used to provide public transport
Conveyance (horse)

Conveyance (foaled 2007 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is currently contending in the Triple Crown series. He is by leading stallion Indian Charlie and out of the broodmare Emptythetill, herself a daughter of American Horse of the Year Holy Bull. He was bred by Gulf Coast Farms LLC and Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, Conveyance was bought for $240,000 by Legends Racing.

Now owned by Zabeel Racing International, LLC, he is trained by Bob Baffert. Conveyance has had five starts prior to April 2010. He won his first four races and placed in the fifth one.

Conveyance broke his maiden by 1½ lengths at Santa Anita on Oct. 31 and followed that with a seven-length romp at Hollywood Park on Nov. 25.

Conveyance began his 3 year old season with a win in January's San Rafael Stakes at Santa Anita. He followed that win with a win in the Southwest Stakes. Baffert Bob Baffert has made Conveyance his No. 3 Kentucky Derby prospect following his win in the Southwest Stakes.

In March, Baffert said he will likely make his next start March 28 in the Grade 3 $800,000 Sunland Derby, the second-richest of all the Derby preps.

On March 28, Endorsement shocked Conveyance in Sunland Derby (AP). Endorsement pulled ahead of heavy favorite Conveyance on the final stretch for an upset victory.

Conveyance qualified for the Kentucky Derby and on April 29 drew post #12. The Kentucky Derby will be run on May 1, 2010 and is the first jewel of the Triple Crown.

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.