Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Transport

Transport , transitive verb

[French transporter, Latin transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]

1.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. — Hakluyt
2.
To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3.
To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. — Milton
We shall then be transported with a nobler... wonder. — South

Transport , noun

[F. See Transport, v.]

1.
Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans... stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. — Arbuthnot
2.
A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
3.
Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. — Pope
Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. — Doddridge
4.
A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.