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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freighter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An oil tanker, she thought, or perhaps a freighter.
▪ He said Boeing offered a freighter version of its 747-400 airliner for between $ 165 million and $ 170 million.
▪ Not by the airport and not on a freighter.
▪ Only two dozen made it back on to the freighter.
▪ There is a wealth of Coventry-produced aircraft and other exhibits, dominated by the giant Armstrong-Whitworth built Argosy freighter of 1959.
▪ They were mere freighters of doctrine, not questioners, which they unloaded in unquestioned dribs and drabs around their parish.
▪ Waves from a passing freighter rocked the boat, Swensson says, throwing him to the deck.
▪ Whiteley, had sighted a convoy of five freighters escorted by three destroyers to the south-west of Pantelleria.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freighter

Freighter \Freight"er\, 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freighter

1620s, "one who loads (a ship)," agent noun from freight (v.). Meaning "a cargo vessel" is from 1839, American English.

Wiktionary
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; a cargo ship.

WordNet
freighter

n. a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, merchantman, merchant ship]

Wikipedia
Freighter

Freighter is a term for a vehicle or person that transports cargo, supplies, or goods.

The term freighter may refer to:

  • A cargo ship
  • A large motor vehicle used to transport goods, known as a truck in the US and a "lorry" in the UK
  • The combination of a tractor unit with a semi-trailer, sometimes called a "semi" or "semi-truck"
  • A cargo aircraft
  • An unmanned resupply spacecraft
  • Bristol Freighter, an aircraft

Usage examples of "freighter".

Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.

With a rumble of displaced air, the Libra-class freighter broke through the high wisps of cloud, airfoil body providing lift to assist the engines as the freighter decelerated and turned to the strip heading from orbit.

I informed Lieutenant Alima that a freighter owned by Han Solo would be blasting out of here with two droids as its primary cargo.

How much antihydrogen would it expend to put those resources together with the freighters themselves?

Barges floated the crop down to the harbor at Barranquilla for transfer to the freighters that carried the bananas to the markets of the East Coast of the United States.

The Trans-Carib freighter filed a false flight plan and took off from Barranquilla, heading for Tampa via the Yucatan Strait.

Texas ship was followed, but an unlucky few had to take evasive action, blinking in and out of Cassiopeian space to lose the Empire scouts and Vandys and, once, a freighter disguised as a Texican.

The docks were crowded with oil tankers, bulk carriers, containerships, and tramp freighters of every make and tonnage, flying flags from all nations, although it was sometimes difficult to see those flags through the forest of cranes working to load and unload cargo.

Freighters, containerships, bulk carriers, tankers, military vessels of every size and shape, cruise ships, they all docked at Singapore, and they carried multinational crews.

There was a freighter wrecked by a missile strike, its frame peeled back and half-melted, like a Daliesque flower.

He was a shipping agent, on those rare times when a Dunking chartered freighter docked at the one port on Pandaros.

The smoke on the port bow hung over an eastbound freighter, and on the beam was a passenger ship, probably a ferry bound for Gothenburg, which had passed ahead of the squadron half an hour ago.

Our committee have received through it a report that a French freighter out of Le Havre for Rotterdam has disappeared at sea.

It was supposed to have been flown out to Tampa, on its first leg, by an Avianca or Lansa freighter but all the domestic national airlines were temporarily grounded at the beginning of May, 1958, when the new elections were coming up.

Belgians whatever the hell they are, syndicate registered in Liechtenstein like some Liberian freighter buying into everything they look God damn peas spilling on the, can you move this?