Definitions for freight

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freight freight

Spelling: [freyt]

IPA: /freɪt/

Freight is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in freight (efghirt).

Definitions for freight

noun

1. goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
2. the ordinary conveyance or means of transport of goods provided by common carriers (distinguished from express):
3. the charges, fee, or compensation paid for such transportation:
4. (especially in Britain) the cargo, or any part of the cargo, of a vessel; merchandise transported by water.
5. Chiefly British. transportation of goods by water.
6. freight train.
7. Slang. cost or price, especially when high:

verb (used with object)

1. to load; burden:
2. to load with goods or merchandise for transportation:
3. to transport as freight; send by freight.

Origin of freight

1350-1400; Middle English freyght (noun) Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht. See fraught

Examples for freight

She was to receive a freight of flour, for Cowes and a market.

Some of them did not unload, but others dumped piles of freight by the docks.

The danger is a bigger fire in an under-floor baggage or freight hold.

They were not robbing the consignees in this raid upon the freight train.

He had come at twenty-two, beating his way on freight trains.

Up in the tower, Bucca was joined by Battalion Chief Orio Palmer, who had managed to get a freight elevator to bring him part way.

It is not an average of freight rates, but is an arbitrary figure.

"My name is 'Dennis,' if I don't beat that freight," she retorted curtly.

There are long lines of freight cars here and snorting locomotives.

Toledo is a tough city, a factory town, a freight train junction, a lake steamer port.