tranect

tranect

(ˈtrænɛkt)
n
a ferry
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The particular reference is to a place where Portia will embark for Venice, "the Tranect," which Shakespeare editors have conceived as a variant of traghetto or ferry but which Roe, improving upon a finding in a 1932 article by the scholar Violet M.
Beyond the previously known bard
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