freight
noun
goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
were freighting
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past progressiveof freight.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There was an opportunity to go to a mining town of northern Arizona, with several ox-teams which were freighting provisions.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by George (Henry George August) Hartmann
Those were freighting days and Russell, Majors and Waddell, government freighters, made this their headquarters.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
Men were freighting across to the islands with heavy teams.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
In the same year, steamboats were freighting barrels of merchandise at fifty cents per barrel for fifteen hundred miles from New Orleans to up-river ports.
From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop
