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

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

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A freight car.

Freighted :: Freighted (imp. & p. p.) of Freigh.

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

Hypothecation :: Hypothecation (n.) A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry..

Overfreighting :: Overfreighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfreigh.

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

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

Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.

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

Haul :: Haul (n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul..

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.

Freightless :: Freightless (a.) Destitute of freight.

Strutted :: Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

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

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

Freighter :: Freighter (n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.

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