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fraught

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fraught (uncountable)

(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
fraught money.
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).

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Verb

fraught (fraughts, present participle fraughting; past and past participle fraughted)

(transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
(intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
  Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.

Adjective

fraught

(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene viii]:
  a vessel of our country richly fraught
(figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
- a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
- enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 236d.
  […] all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
(with with) Furnished, equipped.
Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
a fraught relationship; a fraught process

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