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Webster 1913 Edition
Fraught
Fraught
(fra̤t)
, Noun.
[OE.
fraight
, fraght
; akin to Dan. fragt
, Sw. frakt
, D. vracht
, G. fracht
, cf. OHG. frēht
merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for
+ The root of E. own
. Cf. Freight
.] A freight; a cargo.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Fraught
,Adj.
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
A vessel of our country richly
fraught
. Shakespeare
A discourse
fraught
with all the commending excellences of speech. South.
Enterprises
fraught
with world-wide benefits. I. Taylor.
Fraught
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fraughted
or Fraught
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fraughting
.] [Akin to Dan. ]
fragte
, Sw. frakta
, D. bevrachten
, G. frachten
, cf. OHG. frēhtōn
to deserve. See Fraught
, Noun.
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
[Obs.]
Upon the tumbling billows
The armed ships.
fraughted
rideThe armed ships.
Fairfax.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fraught
FRAUGHT
,Adj.
1.
Laden; loaded; charged; as a vessel richly fraught with goods from India. This sense is used in poetry; but in common business, freighted only is used.2.
Filled; stored; full; as a scheme fraught with mischief; the scriptures are fraught with excellent precepts.FRAUGHT
,Noun.
FRAUGHT
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
fraught
fraught
English
Noun
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (Scotland) A load; a burden.
- (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
Derived terms
- fraught-free
Verb
fraught (third-person singular simple present fraughts, present participle fraughting, simple past and past participle fraughted)
- (transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- 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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
Adjective
fraught (comparative more fraught, superlative most fraught)
- (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
- Shakespeare
- a vessel of our country richly fraught
- Shakespeare
- (with with) Furnished, equipped.
- (figuratively, with with) Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
- Distressed.
- a fraught relationship
- 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
- But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low. With [Oscar] Pistorius, that task is fraught.
Translations
laden
|
charged or accompanied with
distressed
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.