cargo
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cargo/ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
▶noun (pl. cargoes or cargos) goods carried commercially on a ship, aircraft, or truck.
– origin C17: from Sp. cargo, carga, from late L. carricare, carcare ‘to load’, from L. carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’.
'cargo' also found in these Oxford entries:
all-up weight
- average
- bill of lading
- bulk
- C
- cargo cult
- cargo pants
- charter party
- coaster
- deadweight
- deckhand
- dunnage
- fraught
- freight
- galliot
- general average
- hulk
- lade
- landing stage
- larboard
- lighterage
- loadmaster
- manifest
- offload
- payload
- Plimsoll line
- portage
- salvage
- scow
- shipbroker
- staithe
- stevedore
- supercargo
- ton
- tramp
- trans-ship
- trim
- unlade
- unship
- wreck
