freightagen.
/ˈfreɪtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈfreɪdᵻdʒ/ 1.
a. The hire of a vessel for the transport of goods; cost of conveyance of goods (originally, by water; now extended, esp. in U.S., to land-transit).
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > hire of vessel for freight
fraughtc1440
fraughtage1442
freight1463
affreightment1664
freightage1694
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > loading or unloading cargo > loading
lading1500
naulizament1533
charge1540
freightage1694
loading1803
1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 194 A considerable Sum of Money owing..upon the account of Freightage and Demorage.
1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 32 The tonnage, freightage, and tolls, will produce as follow.
1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 21 Sept. (1964) II. 119 It costs, with all duties & freightage about half.
1885 Law Times 79 189/1 The defendants..offered him a steamer called the Glendevon..at the rate of 30s. freightage.
1885 Liverpool Daily Post 23 Oct. 4/8 The higher scale of freightage [by railroad] will be maintained.
b. The freighting or hiring of a vessel.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] > hire of a ship
freightage1755
charterage1806
chartering1817
time charter1861
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 282 If a Ship be intirely freighted for a full Cargo..In case the Owner was not informed of the above-mentioned full Freightage.
2.
a. That with which a vessel is freighted; freight, cargo; quantity of cargo conveyed.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo
fraughta1400
freightc1503
lading1526
furing1535
cargason1583
fraughting1598
fraughtagea1616
stowagea1640
cargo1657
package1669
fare1707
freightage1803
deck-cargo1861
shipment1861
1803 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 61/1 The immense increase of their [Danes'] freightage during the wars of this country.
1843 I. F. Romer Rhone I. 309 The largest vessels can ride at anchor in safety, and unload their freightage close to the very houses.
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. ii. 11 English ships laden with full freightage of gallant soldiers.
1885 Harper's Mag. July 199 Coal as an up freightage is fully as important as the down cargo of grain.
b. transferred. Burden, load.
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society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > a load
ladec897
seamc950
lastOE
burdena1000
charge?c1225
load?c1225
burnc1375
draughta1400
summerc1400
portage1445
pauchlea1450
fraughtc1450
freightc1503
loadinga1513
carriage1597
ballast1620
cargo1657
porterage1666
freightage1823
smalls1846
journey1859
send-off1909
payload1914
1823 Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) II. xxix. 282 The wretched freightage of the Atlantic wave.
1825 Blackwood's Mag. 18 601 The Diligence..discharged its whole freightage into the street.
c. figurative.
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1827 M. Howitt Two Voy. i My ship waits but for me..And all I lack of freightage now is a farewell word from thee.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. xv. 220 Conscience was beginning to inhabit him, and he carried some of the freightage known to men; though in so crude a form that it overweighed him, now on this side, now on that.
3. Transport of goods.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun]
loadc1000
freight1463
carriage?1523
running1825
haulage1826
long haul1839
freighting1856
freightage1872
transport-riding1900
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xvii. 137 High freights and bewildering distances of freightage.
1886 Harper's Mag. Jan. 216 All travel and freightage are still, as of old, conducted by means of horses, asses, camels and mules.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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