Crossword clues for cargoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cargo \Car"go\, n.; pl. Cargoes. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden, load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See Charge.] The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Cargoes of food or clothing.
--E. Everett.
Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods
only, and not to live animals or persons.
--Burill.
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Usage examples of "cargoes".
He cultivated in Chalced both merchants in the seedier ports that would buy unusual cargoes with no questions asked, and lesser Chalcedean lords who did not scruple to act as go-betweens in the ransoming of ships, cargoes and crews.
Ships coming into Bingtown had always to report there first, that the Satrap's tax agents might inspect and tax the incoming cargoes as they were unloaded.
It is not really that unusual a plan: we must work the ship, and work her hard, running the most profitable cargoes as swiftly as we can transport them.
May I inquire as to what ports and cargoes you have chosen for her, and how soon you must leave?
When he was satisfied of their agreement, Kyle went on, "As to ports and cargoes, well, as we have all agreed, we must trade most swiftly in that which is most profitable.
Papa made money with the Vivacia, and never took on illegal cargoes or dangerous ones.
Sincure Faldin had bought cargoes from Kennit before, but never before had he so obviously fawned on him as he did now.
How much would he have to overpay us for our next three cargoes to assure us of his goodwill?
True, this was a hard-working ship and oil and meat were messy cargoes, but her father would never have tolerated the clutter she saw here.
To Brashen, it sounded suspiciously as if the Springeve worked with the pirates, buying and selling stolen cargoes from other ships.
Unfavorable weather, tricky cargoes, even simple bad luck could not break his calm.
In fact, I've been asked to tell you the ships with the required cargoes for the job will arrive in Havana Harbor half a day ahead of schedule.
The other two ships and their deadly cargoes were gathering way in their dash for the open sea, the tugboat adding her power to that of the Amy Bigalow to raise the speed of the marine caravan.
The combined force of the volatile cargoes inside the two ships threw up a mountainous column of fiery debris and smoke that thrust five thousand feet into the tropical sky.
A surge of flaming oil swamped the surrounding waterfront structures and launched a chain reaction of explosions from combustible cargoes sitting on the docks.