Definition of freight

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Freight (n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

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Freighting :: Freighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freigh.
Freightage :: Freightage (n.) The transportation of freight.
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..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One for whom freight is transported.
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..
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..
Cargo :: Cargo (n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight..
Tramway :: Tramway (n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad..
Mogul :: Mogul (n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck..
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..
Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Truckage :: Truckage (n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.
Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..
Freightless :: Freightless (a.) Destitute of freight.
Freight :: Freight (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line..
Moses :: Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship..
Fraught :: Fraught (a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
Fraughting :: Fraughting (a.) Constituting the freight or cargo.
Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise..
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