Definition of freight

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

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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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