Meaning

The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo..

Definitions by Sense

1. The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
2. Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
3. The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
4. A ship's cargo; freight, lading.
5. Two bucketfuls.
6. A burden, a load.
7. To load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
8. To burden or load (someone or something).

Example Sentences

fraught money

VVell, goe / And bid the Merchants and my men diſpatch / And come aſhore, and ſee the fraught discharg'd.

And novv behold after my vvinters toyle, / My paynefull voyage on the boyſtrous ſea, / Of vvarres deuouring gulphes and ſteely rocks, / I bring my fraught vnto the vviſhed port / My Summers hope, my trauels ſvveet reward: […]

The fraught of this Ship being concluded to be Cedar, by the diligence of the Maſter, and Captaine Smith, ſhe vvas quickly reladed: […]

The manse […] is reached […] by a wide, straight path, so rough that to carry a fraught of water to the manse without spilling was to be superlatively good at one thing.

Thoſe morning haunts are vvhere they ſhould be at home, not ſleeping, or concocting the ſurfets of an irregular Feaſt, but up and ſtirring, […] in Summer as oft vvith the Bird that firſt rouſes, or not much tardier, to reade good Authors, or cauſe them to be read, till the Attention be vveary, or Memory have its full fraught: […]

His fraught vve ſoon ſhall knovv, he novv arrives.

The ſhips are ſafe thou ſaiſt, and richly fraught?

Word Forms

• fraughts
• fraughting
• fraught
• fraughted
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• fraughtest
• fraughtedst
• fraughteth
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• more fraught
• fraughter
• most fraught

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