freight

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
2. n. A burden; a load.
3. n. Commercial transportation of goods.
4. n. The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.
5. n. A railway train carrying goods only.
6. v. To convey commercially as cargo.
7. v. To load with goods to be transported.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The cargo, or any part of the cargo, of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water; in the United States and Canada, in general, anything carried for pay either by water or by land; the lading of a ship, canal-boat, railroad-car, wagon, etc.
2. n. The price paid for the transportation of goods or merchandise by sea; by extension, in the United States and Canada, in general, the price paid for the transportation of goods or merchandise by land or by sea.
3. n. In a more general sense, the price paid for the use of a ship, including the transportation of passengers.
4. To load or lade with goods or merchandise for transportation: often used figuratively.
5. To hire for the transportation of goods or merchandise.
6. To carry or transport as freight.
7. Same as fraught.
8. n. Short for freight-train.

Wiktionary

1. n. Payment for transportation.
2. n. Goods or items in transport.
3. n. Transport of goods.
4. v. transitive To transport (goods).
5. v. To load with freight.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.
2. n. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
3. n. The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
4. n. Freight transportation, or freight line.
5. adj. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight.
6. v. To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight

WordNet 3.0

1. n. goods carried by a large vehicle
2. n. transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
3. v. transport commercially as cargo
4. n. the charge for transporting something by common carrier
5. v. load with goods for transportation