fraught

/fɹɔːt/

noun6

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(no longer used) 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. — 1589
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(no longer used) 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
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(figurative, no longer used) A burden, a load.
- His fraught vve soon shall knovv, he novv arrives. — 1671
(no longer used) Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
(no longer used) The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
(no longer used) The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.

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(no longer used) To load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
- The ships are safe thou saist, and richly fraught? — 1589
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(figurative, no longer used) 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. — 1548
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(figurative, no longer used) 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
(Scotland, no longer used) To transport (cargo or passengers) in a vessel; to freight.
(Scotland, no longer used) To hire (a vessel) to transport cargo or passengers.
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(no longer used) 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

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fraughted · fraughting · fraughteth · fraughts · fraughtest · fraughter · more fraught · fraughtest · most fraught