fraughts

Noun

fraught (usually uncountable, plural fraughts)

1. (also, figuratively, obsolete, usually) The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
2. (also, figuratively, obsolete, usually) Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
   • fraught money
3. (also, figuratively, obsolete, usually) The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
4. (also, figuratively, obsolete, usually) A ship's cargo; freight, lading.
   • VVell, goe / And bid the Merchants and my men diſpatch / And come aſhore, and ſee the fraught discharg'd.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...
5. (also, figuratively, obsolete, usually, obsolete except Scotland) Two bucketfuls.
   • The manse […] is reached […] by a wide, straight path, so rough that to carry a fraught of water to the manse without spilling was to be superlatively good at one thing.1891, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Night-watchers”, in The Little Minister. […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC, pages 32–33
6. (also, figuratively, obsolete, usually, obsolete except Scotland) A burden, a load.
   • Thoſe morning haunts are vvhere they ſhould be at home, not ſleeping, or concocting the ſurfets of an irregular Feaſt, but up and ſtirring, […] in Summer as oft vvith the Bird that firſt rouſes, or not much tardier, to reade good Authors, or cauſe them to be read, till the Attention be vveary, or...1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually...

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