FREIGHT AGENT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Freight agent

... appeared also to be the freight agent, came lounging down the platform toward him. He was so exactly of the rustic railroad type that he confused Gaites with a doubt as to which functionary, of the many ...

— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells

... square meal. I've cut corn and ploughed fields, and greased wheels, and chopped wood, and mended machinery, and cleaned the snow away, and once out in some little town in Arizona, I even dug a grave because the sexton was down with pneumonia. I've been brakesman, and freightman, and, after that, freight agent. That was just before I struck it rich in Colorado. I was one of the first men at Bonanza City, and when I went there with the railroad—I was on the very first train that ever ran there—the whole town ...

— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow