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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

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

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

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

Mogul :: Mogul (n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck..

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

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..

Affreight :: Affreight (v. t.) To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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