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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREIGHT, (pronounced like " See also:weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. See also:fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an See also:adjective= " laden ") , the See also:lading or See also:cargo of a See also:ship, and the hire paid for their transport (see See also:AFFREIGHTMENT); from the See also:original sense of See also:water-transport of goods the word has also come to be used for See also:land-transit (particularly in See also:America, by railroad), and by See also:analogy for any load or See also:burden.

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