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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CARGO, n. The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandize, or whatever is conveyed in a ship or other merchant vessel. The lading within the hold is called the inboard cargo, in distinction from horses, cattle and other things carried on deck. The person employed by a merchant to proceed with, oversee and dispose of the lading, is called a supercargo.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural cargoes or cargos) Etymology: Spanish, load, charge, from cargar to load, from Late Latin carricare — more at charge Date: 1657 the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle ; freight

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -oes or -os) 1 goods carried on a ship or aircraft. 2 US goods carried in a motor vehicle. Phrases and idioms: cargo cult (orig. in the Pacific Islands) a belief in the forthcoming arrival of ancestral spirits bringing cargoes of food and other goods. Etymology: Sp. (as CHARGE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cargo Car"go, n.; pl. Cargoes. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden, load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See Charge.] The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. --E. Everett. Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cargoes) The cargo of a ship or plane is the goods that it is carrying. The boat calls at the main port to load its regular cargo of bananas. ...cargo planes. = consignment N-VAR: oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Lading, freight, load, burden or burthen.

Moby Thesaurus

baggage, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, carload, cartload, charge, charging, consignment, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, freight, freightage, goods, hamper, handicap, haul, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, load, loading, luggage, lumber, merchandise, millstone, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, payload, penalty, pressure, saddling, shipload, shipment, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, trailerload, trainload, trouble, truckload, vanload, weight, white elephant