freight
noun
[ freɪt ]
• goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
• "a decline in the amount of freight carried by rail"
Similar:
cargo,
load,
haul,
consignment,
delivery,
shipment,
merchandise,
goods,
lading,
freightage,
• a freight train.
• "I can hear the regular wail of the twelve o'clock freight from my house"
• a load or burden.
• "these warm winds deposit their freight of moisture in showers of rain"
freight
verb
• transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
• "the metals had been freighted from the city"
• be laden or burdened with.
• "each word was freighted with anger"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘hire of a ship for transporting goods’): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with fraught.
