SG Heritage Dictionary

Freight [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. frate. [Latin fero; formed like bright.]

2. The cargo, or any part of the cargo of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water. The freight of a ship consists of cotton; the ship has not a full freight; the owners have advertised for freight; freight will be paid for by the ton.

3. Transportation of goods. We paid four dollars a ton for the freight from London to Barcelona.

4. The hire of a ship, or money charged or paid for the transportation of goods. After paying freight and charges, the profit is trifling.

Freight [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To load with goods, as a ship or vessel of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another. We freighted the ship for Amsterdam; the ship was freighted with flour for Havana.

2. To load as the burden.

Freight [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Freight [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

3. The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

4. Freight transportation, or freight line.

Freight [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Freightage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.

2. The transportation of freight.

3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.

Freighted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Loaded, as a ship or vessel.

Freighted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Freight

Freighter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

Freighter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.