Freight Definition
frāt
freighted, freights
noun
freights
Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
American Heritage
A method or service for transporting goods, esp. bulky goods, by water, land, or air: freight is usually cheaper but slower than express.
Webster's New World
The cost for such transportation.
Webster's New World
Any load or burden.
Webster's New World
The goods transported; lading; cargo.
Webster's New World
verb
freighted, freights
To convey commercially as cargo.
American Heritage
To load with goods to be transported.
American Heritage
To load; burden.
Webster's New World
To transport as or send by freight.
Webster's New World
Origin of Freight
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From Middle English freyght, from Middle Dutch vracht, Middle Low German vrecht (“cost of transport”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possession”), from Proto-Indo-European *eiḱ- (“to possess”), equivalent to for- + aught. Cognate with Old High German frēht (“earnings”), Old English ǣht (“owndom”). More at for-, own.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English fraught, freight from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht aik- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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