freightage

Example Sentences

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Perhaps there’s no reason it would, and yet the absence of historical freightage stands in contrast to Farhadi’s Iranian films, in which the characters are manic with the tensions of an unfinished past.

From New York Times

It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come.

From Literature

The ground floor of the building appears to have been divided into sections, in which space for the freightage or equipment of each of the several vessels was allotted.

From Project Gutenberg

The postillions' whips cracked, the horses scrambled into a trot, and away rolled the carriage, with its precious freightage, along the quaint main street, in the moonlight, toward Paris.

From Project Gutenberg

No, Tom, that precious freightage is for a more substantial craft.

From Project Gutenberg