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

Freightage :: Freightage (n.) The transportation of freight.

Affreighter :: Affreighter (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

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.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Empty :: Empty (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, special rates for empties..

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 (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..

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

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..

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

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