FREIGHT

n. a. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
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. Wharton.

4.
n.

Freight transportation, or freight line.

5.
a.

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car. Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods. -- Freight car. See under Car. -- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.

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; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.