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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



... for the trip. We also bought a small but well-selected lot of goods, suitable for either the Mexican or Indian trade; laid in a large stock of stores for use on the road; and then awaited the departure of some "freighter" for the "Upper Country," that we might take advantage of the better protection afforded by a large party in travelling through a country infested by hostile bands ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
... and a train for his numerous friends if he spoke. On the other hand, his rival, becoming more and more democratic in his leaning to the grotesque, gloried in traveling even in the caboose of a freight-train. He had no brass bands and no canteen for all comers; on one occasion his humble "freighter" was side-tracked to let the palace-cars sweep majestically by, a calliope playing "Hail to the Chief!" and laughter mingling with toasts shouted tauntingly through the open windows. The oppositionist laughed to his friends, ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... Captain Tantrella had been more or less blamed, and had been reduced in rank. Passengers do not, as a rule, care to sail in a ship under the command of one whose vessel has been lost. So poor Captain Tantrella was now only in charge of a freighter, and he ...
— Larry Dexter's Great Search - or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire • Howard R. Garis
... it again we did, only to be almost rammed by a huge freighter. Later we were fired upon by a destroyer, and two merchantmen turned and fled at our approach. For two days we cruised up and down the Channel trying to tell some one, who would listen, that we were friends; ...
— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... indefinitely—unless she did something about it—and Brule was on Manon Planet. By the very fastest subspace ships the Manon System was a good nine days away. For the standard Grand Commerce express freighter or the ordinary liner it was a solid two-months' run. Manon was a ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... well across the bar by eight o'clock. She would anchor on the bar for the night, and it was there that Captain Jim Skelly meant to board her in order to forestall any possible scheme that wily Captain Barney might devise to gain the bridge of the freighter. ...
— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry
... de Alcega was freighter of the ship "Santo Thomas" [50] in the year 99, which left here for Nueva Espana in company with two other vessels from this city. In the loading of this ship, so great was the dishonesty and deceit on his part that it ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume XI, 1599-1602 • Various


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


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