Definitions for freighter

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freighter freight·er

Spelling: [frey-ter]

IPA: /ˈfreɪ tər/

Freighter is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in freighter (eefghirrt).

Definitions for freighter

noun

1. a vessel used mainly for carrying cargo.
2. a large aircraft or spacecraft used primarily for transporting cargo and equipment:
3. a person whose occupation it is to receive and forward freight.
4. a person for whom freight is transported; shipper.

Origin of freighter

First recorded in 1615-25; freight + -er¹

Examples for freighter

That freighter leaves to-night for Barbados with sugar machinery.

As bad as it is on a freighter, I reckon you ain't sorry you're off that yacht, son?

The British freighter Strathend, of 4,321 tons, was the first victim.

We just heard about it last evening, when the news came in on a freighter from there.

"Ahoy there, aboard the freighter," sounded a stern, determined voice.

Slipped into the village on a freighter at dusk one evening.

He had been accustomed to a freighter's slower time on the courses.

When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops.

The moment he became disengaged I inquired if he was a freighter.

The 7,000-ton freighter is still stocked with sake bottles and four fighter planes, and it is encircled by gray reef.