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freighting†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the transporting of goods and supplies, especially in the North, and, formerly, in the West.
Quotations
1909
These left the great riverways and freighting trails, and pressing up the streams to distant head waters, there pitched their camp. . . .
1909
They all to some extent cultivate the soil, varying their farm operations by hunting, trapping, and freighting.
1926
A brigade might include several hundred carts, one freighter being in charge of three carts. Sixteen to eighteen shillings per hundred pounds was paid for freighting.
1942
He had a freighting ship, a Fairchild, splendid for Northern travel and the only plane of its type in the whole eastern Arctic.