Obs. exc. in pa. pple.: see next. Forms: 5 fraght, 5–7 Sc. fraucht, 6– fraught. Pa. t. and pa. pple. 6–7 fraught, fraughted. [f. prec. sb.; cf. MDu. vrachten, Ger. frachten, Da. fragte, Sw. frakta.]
† 1. trans. To load (a ship) with cargo: = FREIGHT v. 1. Obs.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), v. 15. Þai wende gladly to Cipre to rest þam þare on þe land and to refresch þam, and also to fraght þer schippes with salt.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., I. 30/1. Cesar was constreined to fraught those [ships] that he could get with a greater burden.
1633. T. Stafford, Pacata Hibernia, II. ii. (1810), 232. He provided a Barke, which hee fraught with Hides, Tallow, and such commodities.
1670. R. Coke, Disc. Trade, 30. If we buy any, or Fraught any Strangers Ship for any of the Trades, it is forfeit with all her Goods, Guns, Lading, Tackle, and Ammunition.
† b. transf. and fig. Obs.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., I. i. 126.
| If after this command thou fraught the Court | |
| With thy vnworthinesse, thou dyest. |
1621. Selden, Drayton’s Polyolb., v. 265, note. His wife had, out of whose flocke the Ram was taken, had by incestuous copulation with her husbands Nephew fraughted her selfe with a yong one.
1637. Suckling, Aglaura, I. i.
| I have so fraught this Barke with hope, that it | |
| Dares venture now in any storme, or weather. |
† c. To hire (a vessel) for the carriage of goods or passengers. Sc. Obs.
1488. Sc. Acts Jas. IV. (1814), II. 209/1. And þat naine of oure souerane lordis liegis tak schippis to fraucht vnder colour to defraud oure souerane lord.
1568. Satir. Poems Reform., xlvi. 61.
| Scho [my pynnege] will ressaif na landwart Jok, | |
| Thocht he wald frawcht hir for a croun. |
† 2. To carry or convey as freight: = FREIGHT v. 2. Sc. Obs.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. xviii. 228.
| Quha-evyr for his frawcht wald be | |
| For caus frawchtyd owre þat se. |
1568. Satir. Poems Reform., xlvi. 37.
| Bot, quhair scho findis a fallow fyne, | |
| He wilbe frawcht fre for a souss. |
1581. Sc. Act Jas. VI., c. 120 (1597), 54. That nane of them conduct, fraucht, nor pilot onie stranger, to the said Iles.
3. To store, supply, furnish with (a stock of); to equip. Obs. exc. arch.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 25. Counterfet Gods with which the comon errour or foly of ye world fraughteth heaven.
1578. T. P., Gorgious Gallery Gallant Invent.
| By studies toyle with phrases fine they fraught | |
| This peereles peece, filde full of pretty pith. |
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. iv. § 59. For the vicinity of his new Parke at Woodstocke, which hee had fraught with all kinde of strange beasts, wherein hee much delighted, as Lyons, Leopards, Lynces, Camels, Procupines, and the like.
1645. Bp. Hall, Remedy Discontents, 60–1. When his better earnings have fraught his trencher with a warm and pleasing morsell, and his cup with a stronger liquor, how chearfully is he affected with that happy variety.
1878. A Masque of Poets, 27, A Mood of Cleopatra.
| All | |
| These vessels, to the brims of them, | |
| With deadliest poisons had been fraught. |
† b. with a person as object. Obs.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., 11. With what feats and Artes, he began to furnish and fraught him selfe, for the better seruice of his Kyng and Countrey, both in peace & warre.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Descr. Eng. Poetry, Wks. II. 247/2.
| I haue approued, | |
| And found such obseruations as are fit, | |
| With plenitude to fraught a barren wit. |
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), I. 313. So king Henry full fraught all those with wealth and rewards, whom he retained in that employment.
Hence Fraughting vbl. sb.; Fraughting ppl. a., that forms a freight or cargo.
1598. Florio, Porto, the cariage, bringing, or fraughting of any thing.
1610. Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 12.
| It should the good Ship so haue swallow’d, and | |
| The fraughting Soules within her. |
