fraughteth

Verb

fraught (third-person singular simple present fraughts, present participle fraughting, simple past and past participle fraught or fraughted)

1. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
   • The ſhips are ſafe thou ſaiſt, and richly fraught?c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published...
2. (also, archaic, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To burden or load (someone or something).
   • From God these heavy cares are sent for our unrests; / And with such burdens for our wealth he fraughteth full our breasts.a. 1548 (date written), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “Ecclesiastes. Chapter III.”, in The Poems of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, London: William Pickering, published 1831, →OCLC, page 90
3. (also, archaic, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Followed by with: to furnish or provide (something).
   • Therefore in ſayinge that he ſeeketh to none in heauẽ ſaue only god, he reiecteth all the counterfet Gods with which the comon errour & foly of yͤ world fraughteth heauen.1571, John Calvin, “[Commentary on Psalm 73:25]”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: […] Thomas East and Henry Middelton; for...

   Synonyms:

   equip, supply

4. (Scotland, also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To hire (a vessel) to transport cargo or passengers.
5. (Scotland, also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To transport (cargo or passengers) in a vessel; to freight.
6. (also, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo or passengers of a vessel.
   • Had I byn any God of povver, I vvould / Have ſuncke the Sea vvithin the Earth, or ere / It ſhould the good Ship ſo haue ſvvallovv'd, and / The fraughting Soules within her.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

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