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

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

Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship..

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..

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

Overfreighting :: Overfreighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfreigh.

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

Local :: Local (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Fraught :: Fraught (n.) A freight; a cargo.

Flatboat :: Flatboat (n.) A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters..

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

Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.

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