Noah Webster's Dictionary 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 sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired. 3. (n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. 4. (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line. 5. (a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car. 6. (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.

Multi-Version Concordance Freight (1 Occurrence) Acts 27:18 And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the 'the freight' overboard; (ASV)