Definition of freight

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Freight (a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car..

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Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise..
Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car..
Moses :: Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship..
Freightage :: Freightage (n.) Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A freight car.
Freighted :: Freighted (imp. & p. p.) of Freigh.
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
Fraughtage :: Fraughtage (n.) Freight; loading; cargo.
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..
Freightless :: Freightless (a.) Destitute of freight.
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
Overfreight :: Overfreight (v. t.) To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload..
Fraughting :: Fraughting (a.) Constituting the freight or cargo.
Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A freight car on a railway.
Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls..
Affreightment :: Affreightment (n.) The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One for whom freight is transported.
Bulker :: Bulker (n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them..
Depot :: Depot (n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
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