Cargo

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cargo \Car"go\, n.; pl. {Cargoes}. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden,
     load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See
     {Charge}.]
     The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods,
     merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat;
     load; freight.


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           Cargoes of food or clothing.             --E. Everett.
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     Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods
           only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cargo
       n : goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: {lading}, {freight},
           {load}, {loading}, {payload}, {shipment}, {consignment}]
       [also: {cargoes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "cargo":
     baggage, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, carload, cartload,
     charge, charging, consignment, cross, cumber, cumbrance,
     deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment,
     encumbrance, freight, freightage, goods, hamper, handicap, haul,
     impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus,
     incumbency, lading, load, loading, luggage, lumber, merchandise,
     millstone, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting,
     pack, payload, penalty, pressure, saddling, shipload, shipment,
     superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, trailerload,
     trainload, trouble, truckload, vanload, weight, white elephant
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CARGO, mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. Abb. on Sh. 
  Index, h.t.; 1 Dall. 197; Merl. Rep. h.t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term 
  is usually applied to goods only, and does not include human beings. 1 
  Phill. Ins. 185; 4 Pick. 429. But in a more extensive and less technical 
  sense, it includes persons; thus we say a cargo of emigrants. See 7 Mann. 
  Gr. 729, 744.