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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..

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

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

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

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A freight car.

Fraught :: Fraught (n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.

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..

Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise..

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

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

Haul :: Haul (n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul..

Freightage :: Freightage (n.) Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.

Fraughting :: Fraughting (a.) Constituting the freight or cargo.

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

Barcon :: Barcon (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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