Synonyms:
cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment
Meaning: goods carried by a large vehicle
Synonyms:
freight, freightage
Meaning: transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
Usage examples
Standing near was a hand truck used in the manipulation of small freight.
Tom climbed over the logs in the tender; then, balancing carefully, he stood up and clutched the top of the swaying freight car.
It was not an easy matter to keep them right side up, with their helpless freight of little children and such goods as we possessed.
"I've arranged for a special engine," he added, "and if all goes well the freight will be on the sidetrack at Chazy Junction on Monday morning.
Over the long-distance telephone Mr. Marvin reported that he had bought the required outfit and it was even then being loaded on the freight cars.
Just a little guy, as spacemen go. Although narrow-waisted and, for his heft, broad-shouldered, he was built for speed and maneuverability, not to haul freight.
Down they crashed, carrying their freight of black, clinging, human ants, while from the sea's depths a wave, a mile high, rose and battered the fragments to destruction.
The little workers, reaching the goal with their precious freight, are now giving it over to the Master Pushers, who have been waiting for them in the sun all this while.
Then slowly the great shell closed, once more the shouting crowds seized hold of the straining ropes, and the great bivalve with its fair freight was drawn slowly along through the gayly illuminated streets.
The next morning I walked into the village, mailed my letter, visited the railway station with true rustic instinct and watched the cutting out of a freight car for Annandale with a pleasure I had not before taken in that proceeding.