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fraughter

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fraught

  [frawt]
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–adjective
1. Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
–noun
2. Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
—Idiom
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
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Word Origin & History

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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