freighter
English
noun
Definitions
- One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
- One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
- One for whom freight is transported.
- A vessel used mainly to carry freight; a cargo ship.
Etymology
Suffix from English freight.
Origin
English
freight
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- airfreight English
- aught English
- freight English
- freightable English
- freightage English
- freighthopper English
- freighthopping English
- freightless English
- freightwagon English
- freightyard English
- nonfreight English
- overfreight English
- freyght Middle English