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Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls..

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

Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A freight car on a railway.

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

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

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

Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car..

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

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

Truckage :: Truckage (n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.

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

Hypothecation :: Hypothecation (n.) A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry..

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

Traffic :: Traffic (v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried..

Laden :: Laden (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart..

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..

Freight :: Freight (n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

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

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

Barge :: Barge (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat..

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