What is "means of transport"

Usage examples of "means of transport".

This difference might indeed have been expected on the view of the islands having been stocked by occasional means of transport -- a seed, for instance, of one plant having been brought to one island, and that of another plant to another island.

Why should he waste time traveling when an instant means of transport was at hand?

I shall only be 180 leagues from Lisbon, and I shall wait there for some means of transport.

But would the strangers, once they had their means of transport, merely withdraw?

The proprietors were not charged with the expense of this transport in the provinces situated on the sea-shore or near the great rivers, there were companies of boatmen, and of masters of vessels, who had this commission, and furnished the means of transport at their own expense.

Even if we assume that roads were hacked out of the jungle and that there were means of transport that could surmount the mountains and force a way through the marshy morasses, the heavy loads would still only have reached the southeast corner of the island and would then have had to be loaded on to ships.

Comfortable modern means of transport have removed the hardships of journeys which our grandfathers still had to suffer.

As it was the most expedient means of transport, the guard complied, hurrying away with the little child in his first set of arms.

The ports of Flushing and Flanders were better points: there we could not tell by our eyes what means of transport were provided.

Orogastus had kept a stable of them (since he could not summon the lammergeiers, fronials were his only means of transport to and from the Tower), and Haramis had simply continued his breeding program.

Lee thought he knew the answer to that question, which to the others must have been purely rhetorical: by the distant year 2014, men must have discovered better means of transport than either horses or buggies.