Freight

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

2. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

3. The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton.

4. Freight transportation, or freight line.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car. Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods. -- Freight car. See under Car. -- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.