n. (used attributively) of or having to do with the transporting of goods, especially in the North and West.
- 1879  The vehicles to which dogs are harnessed in the Fur Land are of three kinds--the passenger sledge, or dog-cariole, the freight-sledge, and the travaille.
- 1938  Freight brigades would come and go, the store would be crowded with Indians, men, women, and children.
- 1965  When the Metis boys became men they often worked for the fur traders as interpreters, guides, and freight drivers.