Cargo

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The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. - E. Everett.

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cargo - goods carried by a large vehicle Synonyms: consignment, freight, lading, shipment, payload, load, loading

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.

baggage, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, carload, cartload, charge, charging, consignment, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, freightage, goods, hamper, handicap, haul, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, 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