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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..

Freighter :: Freighter (n.) A vessel used mainly to carry 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 employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Lading :: Lading (n.) That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as, the lading of a ship..

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

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

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

Depot :: Depot (n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.

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

Freight :: Freight (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line..

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

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