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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Freighting :: Freighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freigh.

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

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