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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Truckage :: Truckage (n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.
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..
Overfreight :: Overfreight (v. t.) To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload..
Freightage :: Freightage (n.) The transportation of freight.
Fraught :: Fraught (a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
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..
Freighting :: Freighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freigh.
Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A freight car on a railway.
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..
Freighted :: Freighted (imp. & p. p.) of Freigh.
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car..
Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Primage :: Primage (n.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain..
Laden :: Laden (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart..
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..
Moses :: Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship..
Fraught :: Fraught (n.) A freight; a cargo.
Overfreighting :: Overfreighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfreigh.
Fraught :: Fraught (n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
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