Word Meanings - MOSES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

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• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• FLATBOAT
  A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• FREIGHTLESS
  Destitute of freight.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• FREIGHTER
  1. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship. 2. One employed in receiving and forwarding freight. 3. One for whom freight is transported. 4. A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• SHORE
  imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.