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Purser :: Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc..

Average :: Average (n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

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

Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object..

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

Affreightment :: Affreightment (n.) The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo..

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

Freight :: Freight (v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car..

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

Affreighter :: Affreighter (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

Station :: Station (n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc..

Bottomry :: Bottomry (n.) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and

Mogul :: Mogul (n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck..

Overfreight :: Overfreight (v. t.) To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload..

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

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

Fraught :: Fraught (a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.

Ship :: Ship (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad..

Affreight :: Affreight (v. t.) To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight..

Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

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