Freight

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Freight transportation, or freight line.

II. Freight ·noun The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

III. Freight ·adj Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

IV. Freight ·noun The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

V. Freight ·vt 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.

VI. Freight ·noun That with which anything in 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.

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