Definition of freight

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

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Demurrage :: Demurrage (n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
Freightage :: Freightage (n.) The transportation of freight.
Overfreighting :: Overfreighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfreigh.
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..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One for whom freight is transported.
Barcon :: Barcon (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A freight car.
Empty :: Empty (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, special rates for empties..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
Overfreighted :: Overfreighted (imp. & p. p.) of Overfreigh.
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..
Freight :: Freight (v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car..
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..
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..
Fraughting :: Fraughting (a.) Constituting the freight or cargo.
Freight :: Freight (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship..
Freight :: Freight (n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
Fraughtage :: Fraughtage (n.) Freight; loading; cargo.
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