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fraught
[frawt] 
–adjective
| 1. | Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares. |
–noun
—Idiom| 2. | Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship). |
| 3. | fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger. |
Origin:
1300–50; ME < MD or MLG vracht freight money, freight; cf. OHG frēht earnings, OE ǣht possession
1300–50; ME < MD or MLG vracht freight money, freight; cf. OHG frēht earnings, OE ǣht possession
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| fraught (frôt) adj.
Freight; cargo. [Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo; see freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Indo-European roots).] |
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Fraught
Fraught\ (fr[add]t), n. [OE. fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.] A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] --Shak.Fraught
Fraught\, a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. A vessel of our country richly fraught. --Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech. --South. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I. Taylor.Fraught
Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraughting.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to deserve. See Fraught, n.] To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax.
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fraught
c.1300, "laden" (of vessels), from M.E. fraughten "to load (a ship) with cargo," from fraght "cargo, lading of a ship," var. of freight, infl. by M.Du. vrachten "to load or furnish with cargo," from P.Gmc. *fra-aihtiz (see freight). Figurative sense is first attested 1576.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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