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Freighter   Listen
noun
Freighter  n.  
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.





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"Freighter" Quotes from Famous Books



... up the creek, proposing to return in the morning. About sunset they were seen slowly approaching the shearing-shed, It seemed that in watering their horses they had seen a man in the creek. The small freighter imparted this information in a low voice, with some hesitation and a deprecatory half-smile. The young and large freighter stood aloof, with a half-smile too, but he had evidently found the sensation disagreeably strong. This, it seemed certain, must be the lost Juan Lucio. The next day, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... the same as he ought to go — By the heel of the Paternosters — there isn't a chance to mistake — And Mac'll pay you the money as soon as the bubbles break! Five thousand for six weeks' cruising, the staunchest freighter afloat, And Mac he'll give you your bonus the minute I'm out o' the boat! He'll take you round to Macassar, and you'll come back alone; He knows what I want o' the Mary. . . . I'll do what I please with my own. Your mother 'ud call it wasteful, but I've seven-and-thirty ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... pleasure; and his voice deepened as he replied: "Two years next March, Miss. I came in over the ice with a freighter. I ran away from school. What was the use?—I got a head like a hickory nut; and I couldn't keep out of trouble. They gave me a bad name; and everything that happened was put on me. So I ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... drop across food on trail, but we won't. There's nothin' to be got until the first freighter comes up the river. ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild
... were keen to know what Sam had come for. The last time they had heard of him he was a freighter. His reticence ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner
... trade. The opening of the canals brought to an end what had been the bane of internal commerce for half a century—the excessive cost of freight transportation. Freight rates between Albany and Buffalo were at once reduced 90 per cent and the day of the freighter on the Genesee road was ended. The new canal wrought a complete change in all the rural districts of western New York. Lumber, staves, ashes, grain and vegetables, hitherto unmarketable, were now shipped to the markets of ...
— Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States - 1789-1900 • T.W. van Mettre


Words linked to "Freighter" :   cargo vessel, bottom, freight, cargo ship


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