The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]
   1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
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            The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
            to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   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.
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   3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
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            With transport views the airy rule his own,
            And swells on an imaginary throne.    --Pope.
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            Say not, in transports of despair,
            That all your hopes are fled.         --Doddridge.
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   4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

transport ship
    n 1: a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment