Word Meanings - AFFREIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or 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.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• GOODS
  See 3
• 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.
• TRANSPORTATION
  1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Transport; ecstasy. South.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• 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.
• CONSUMER'S GOODS
  Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.
• PRODUCER'S GOODS
  Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting.
• DRESS GOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• STEELBOW GOODS
  Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
• AFFREIGHTMENT
  The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.