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noun

Freight n.

That with which anything is 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.

(Law)

(a)

The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

(b)

The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

Freight transportation, or freight line.

verb

Freight v. t. (past & past part. freighted; pres. part. freighting) 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.

adjective

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

Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods.

Freight car. See under Car.

Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; called in England goods train.

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Etymology of 'Freight'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freight" Quotes from Famous Books

... bellowing note; the paddles dipped almost as one into the water, and the men burst into a triumphal chorus, as, for a few hundred yards, the great war canoes which they had captured swept with their freight of spoil at a rapid rate southward ...

— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn

... and sailing vessels, of every description, are being loaded and discharged; powerful steam-hoists in operation on the docks; immense quantities of freight and merchandise in process of transfer to and from the railroad cars; and bustle everywhere; while hundreds of pleasure-boats and small crafts, of every conceivable variety, may be seen as far as the eye can reach. There we saw the trim and dainty shell, with its arrow-like prow, darting through ...

— By Water to the Columbian Exposition • Johanna S. Wisthaler

... the city, each bearing a ghastly freight, and the summer approaching, it is scarcely surprising that the city should soon again be visited with an epidemic. "At the city gates," wrote an eye-witness, "one sees nothing but gibbets and the quarters of these wretches"—the wretches ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... a quantity of letters from different acquaintance, and from their acquaintance: if Mr. Thostrup would have the goodness to take care of this to Viborg, these to Aarhuus, and the others as far as Copenhagen. It was a complete freight, such as one gets in little towns, just as though no post went through ...

— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen

... warp over to the other side. The picturesque blocks and cables in the foreground have hopelessly changed position, and continue changing; but she consoles herself by making marginal notes of the passengers returning by the boat,—a six-horse freight-team from Silver City, and a band of horses driven by two realistic cow-boys from anywhere. The driver of the freight-team has a young wildcat aboard, half starved, haggard, and crazed with captivity. He stops, and pulls out his wretched pet. The cow-boys ...

— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote

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