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af⋅freight

   [uh-freyt]
–verb (used with object)
to charter (a ship) as a freight carrier.
Origin:
1840–50; < F affréter (resp. by influence of freight), equiv. to a- a- 5 (< L ad- ad- ) + fréter to hire a ship, deriv. of fret freight, OF < MD
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Affreight

Af*freight"\, v. t. [Pref. ad- + freight: cf. F. affr['e]ter. See Freight.] To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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