Word Meanings - OVERFREIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.

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.
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.
HEAVILY
1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century. 2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence,
HEAVILY-TRAVELED; HEAVILY TRAVELED
subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled.
OVERLOAD
To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
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.