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freight (iou)



freight verb. LME.
[from the noun. Cf. FRAUGHT verb.]
verb trans. Load (a ship) with cargo; hire or let out (a ship) for the transport of goods and passengers. LME.
E. Bowen Having freighted a small vessel with their household effects, [they] themselves set sail for London.
b. fig. Load, burden. E19.
G. Vidal Dr. Ashok's voice was freighted with emotion. L. Hudson People and places, apparently trivial, are heavily freighted..with unspoken significance.
verb trans. & intrans. Carry or transport (goods) as freight. M16.
Listener Mown down on a turnpike by a container-lorry freighting lavatory-pans to the Midwest.