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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

... schisms, even before one can know what is in his mind. When thou hast arrived at a decision delay not in declaring it. Who keepeth within him that which he can eject?... When a boat cometh into port it is unloaded, and the freight thereof is landed everywhere on the quay. It is [well] known that thou hast been educated, and trained, and experienced, but behold, it is not that thou mayest rob [the people]. Nevertheless thou dost [rob them] just as other people do, and those who are found about thee ...

— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... personal admirers and supporters—on account of a rather umbrageous reputation even for the border—considered it not incompatible with his indisputable gameness to perform that judicious tractional act known as "pulling his freight." ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... Myers had lived alone in Winesburg. He was but forty but looked sixty-five. The name of Biddlebaum he got from a box of goods seen at a freight station as he hurried through an eastern Ohio town. He had an aunt in Winesburg, a black-toothed old woman who raised chickens, and with her he lived until she died. He had been ill for a year after the experience in Pennsylvania, and after his recovery worked as ...

— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... interesting to tell her, and she was so interested, that when the train arrived I was too much occupied to think that it might start again immediately, but it did that very thing, and so I was left. However, the Walpole young woman told me there was a freight-train along in about an hour, and so we continued our conversation. When this train came I asked the engineer how many cigars he would take to let me ride in the cab. He said half a dozen, but as I only ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations ...

— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson

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