vectūra, ae, f. [veho], a bearing, carrying, conveying, transportation by carriage or by ship; a riding, etc.
I Lit. (class.): equi idonei ad vecturam, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 15: misimus qui pro vecturā solveret, for the transportation , Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2: mercium. Dig. 4, 9, 4: sine vecturae periculo. of transportation by sea , Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 4.— Plur. : remiges, arma, frumenta, vecturae imperabantur, transport , conveyance , Caes. B. C. 3, 32: vecturas frumenti finitimis civitatibus descripsit, id. ib. 3, 42: onerum, Gell. 5, 3, 1.—
II Transf., passage-money , freight-money , fare , freight , Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 138; Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 4; Petr. 101, 5.