|
|
Definition of Freighter
1. Noun. A cargo ship. "They did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
Generic synonyms: Cargo Ship, Cargo Vessel
Derivative terms: Freight, Freight
Definition of Freighter
1. n. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
Definition of Freighter
1. Noun. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship. ¹
2. Noun. One employed in receiving and forwarding freight. ¹
3. Noun. One for whom freight is transported. ¹
4. Noun. A vessel used mainly to carry freight; a cargo ship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freighter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freighter
Literary usage of Freighter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"On char- ter-party, by owner of ship against freighter, for not dispatching ...
If the owner execute a deed to the freighter containing a covenant for the ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law Relating to Insurance: In Three Parts, Viz. I.--Of by David Hughes (1833)
"(/) And though the terms " let to freight and hire" in a charter-party have been
sometimes relied upon to shew that the freighter was owner for *the voyage, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1855)
"... payable in London at two months from the completion of the said delivery ;
moreover, the master thereby agreed that the freighter, his agents, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"In consideration whereof, and of every thing above mentioned, the freighter
covenanted that he, his executors, &c., agents or assigns, would employ the said ..."
5. A Digested Index to the Modern Reports, of the Courts of Common Law, in by Nicholas Baylies, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, John Ilderton Burn (1814)
"&c. and keep her so, hi not a condition precedent to the recovery of freight af-
42 fer the freighter had taken the ship into his service, and used her for ..."
6. An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Determined in the House of by Samuel Bealey Harrison, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Court of Bankruptcy (1835)
"Id. And where by charter-party the ship-owners covenanted to receive a full cargo,
and the freighter to load the same, and to pav so much for every ton of ..."
7. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1891)
"By this contract the freighter agreed to pay demurrage under certain circumstances.
The contract to pay demurrage is in the ordinary form, ..."
Other Resources:
