freight

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I'll be along here with my team in half an hour, as my freight is already loaded Rut we shall need provisions for the route," I said Of course you will; but as I have to take some for myself, I'll get a quantity for you also, and charge just what I pay.

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  1. noun Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
  2. noun A burden; a load.
  3. noun Commercial transportation of goods.

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  • As soon as the freight was unloaded, the steamer returned While I was talking with her, the shrill screaming of a steamboat whistle assured me I had another customer for wood. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
  • When madam returned, saying their search for their freight was still unavailing, I left her in my place and again called upon the captain Calling the third time at his boat, I found him and secured his ready permission to temporarily pitch our tents upon the sands, for he was an Alderman with adjoining "town lots," he told us By six o'clock that afternoon a part of madam's baggage and freight was found, hauled by dog-team through town to the Sandspit and deposited upon the ground. —  A Woman who went to Alaska
  • The "Elk's" crew had dumped the freight promiscuously upon the frozen sands, considering their duty at that point done, and no assurance was given us that the freight was all there, or that it was in good condition. —  A Woman who went to Alaska
  • "Where's your freight, your grain, cattle West_-bound freight, coal, feed, seed-grain, work, and more neighbors One-sided bargain. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Biscuit and cake and pickles and 'desecrated' vegetables and canned peaches and sardines and jam and coffee!--freight cars and wagons and storehouses just filled with jam and coffee and canned peaches and cigars and--" "I wish that fool would hush! —  The Long Roll
 

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cargo ·  passenger ·  baggage ·  mail ·  transportation ·  railway ·  merchandise ·  ammunition ·  express ·  shipment ·  lumber ·  fuel

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freight:   freights
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English fraught, freight, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht; see aik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from late Middle English freight, freyt, an altered form of fraught, prob. due to the influence of French fret: see fraught, n.
  2. from freight, n.
  3. Also fraight; variant of fraught.
 

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