- Biblical character - Great Hebrew leader - Leader of The Exodus - Ten Commandments prophet - A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight
from shore to ship.
- Cargo - Goods transported in bulk - Shipment - 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. - The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship
for the use of what is thus hired. - The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. - Freight transportation, or freight line.
- The act or contract by which property is
hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his
debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price
appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or
jus in re. - A contract whereby, in consideration of money
advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo
is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety.
It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry.