freighteth

Verb

freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)

1. (transitive) To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
   • It is true, there be few Merchants, that with the Merchandiſe they buy at home, can fraight a Ship, to export it; or with that they buy abroad, to bring it home; and have therefore need to joyn together in one Society; […]1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Systemes Subject, Politicall, and Private”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew...
2. (transitive) To transport (goods).
3. (broadly, transitive) To load or store (goods, etc.).
   • [W]hat though it is thou [i.e., sensibility] that rendereſt anguiſh more frequent, that filleſt the eye with the ſympathetic tear! yet is it not thou that ſwelleſt it with the tear of joy, and freighteſt the heart beyond the power of utterance,— […]1783 October, Castalic [pseudonym], “The Essayist. Number XVI. Sensibility, a Rhapsody.”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex. Appropriated Solely to Their Use and...
4. (figuratively, transitive) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
5. (US, also, figuratively, intransitive) Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
   • How often, when those hopes are greatest,
     The bark that bears them must not be
     Trusted with more than what thou freightest
     For sun-lit hour and summer sea:
     Who, when the waves are high and dark,
     Could steer, if freighted deep, such bark?1840 March, F[rederick] W[illiam] Thomas, “A Poet to His Sister”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: […] William Osborn, […], →OCLC, stanza 4...

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