Freight
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
(2): ( n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
(3): ( a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
(4): ( n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.
(5): ( v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
(6): ( n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
lit., "a throwing out" (from ekballo, "to throw out"), denotes "a jettison, a throwing out of cargo," Acts 27:18 , lit., "they made a throwing out," RV, "they began to throw the freight overboard," AV, "they lightened the ship." In the Sept., Exodus 11:1; Jonah 1:5 .
