fraughtage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fraughtage (uncountable)
- (obsolete, nautical) freight; cargo
- c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Our fraughtage, sir, I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought the oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae.
- c. 1610-1614, William Rowley (attributed), A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed
- our ships are so near return, as laden on the Downs with such a wealthy fraughtage.
References
[edit]- “fraughtage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.