The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convoy \Con*voy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Convoying.] [F. convoyer, OF. conveier, convoier. See Convey.] To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
I know ye skillful to convoy
The total freight of hope and joy.
--Emerson.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of convoy English)
Usage examples of "convoying".
The American Navy, in addition to its "neutrality patrol," did some surreptitious convoying, relying on German forbearance and congressional ignorance to get away with such flagrant acts of war.
If we took over convoying, they might have a chance to stay in the game.
However, in the circles around him, his sycophants kept urging him to initiate convoying of American ships to England.
His one course to ensure war between Germany and Russia was to hold off the convoying decision.
They entered with Burden in the lead and Looks bringing up the rear, the two younger scouts convoying their Senior.
Had this been a normal colonization she could have looked forward to many years of convoying survey teams and scouts across the surface of the new world.
They saw that the convoying of provisions round Peloponnese would be then impossible.
Before him lay a richlyladen freighter, its two convoying ships already practically out of action.
He was just there, for once not scampering after his deceased Persian patootie, but stalking along at my heel, all dignity now, sort of convoying me like a tugboat, escorting me—where?
The familiar music filtered through the intercom system as the tight knot of Secret Service men escorted their charge into the room, not unlike a cluster of nervous remoras convoying a shark.