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Tally :: Tally (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard..

Freight :: Freight (n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight..

Overfreighting :: Overfreighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfreigh.

Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

Transfreight :: Transfreight (v. i.) To transfrete.

Overfreighted :: Overfreighted (imp. & p. p.) of Overfreigh.

Local :: Local (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

Flatboat :: Flatboat (n.) A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters..

Freightless :: Freightless (a.) Destitute of freight.

Moses :: Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship..

Primage :: Primage (n.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain..

Freighting :: Freighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freigh.

Ton :: Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..

Freightage :: Freightage (n.) Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.

Empty :: Empty (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, special rates for empties..

Demurrage :: Demurrage (n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing..

Fraughtage :: Fraughtage (n.) Freight; loading; cargo.

Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..

Freighter :: Freighter (n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.

Freightage :: Freightage (n.) The transportation of freight.

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