Associations to the word «Freighter»

Wiktionary

FREIGHTER, noun. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
FREIGHTER, noun. One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
FREIGHTER, noun. One for whom freight is transported.
FREIGHTER, noun. A vessel used mainly to carry freight; a cargo ship.

Dictionary definition

FREIGHTER, noun. A cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats