Word Meanings - FREIGHTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of freight.

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• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• FREIGHTLESS
  Destitute of freight.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• DESTITUTE
  1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
• FREIGHTER
  1. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship. 2. One employed in receiving and forwarding freight. 3. One for whom freight is transported. 4. A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
• DESTITUTELY
  In destitution.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• OVERFREIGHT
  To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
• AFFREIGHT
  To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.
• TRANSFREIGHT
  To transfrete. Waterhouse.
• AFFREIGHTMENT
  The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.