affreight

affreight (third-person singular simple present affreights, present participle affreighting, simple past and past participle affreighted)

1. (archaic, transitive) To hire (a ship etc.) for the transportation of freight.

• “affreight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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