n. the transporting of goods and supplies, especially in the North, and, formerly, in the West.
- 1909  These left the great riverways and freighting trails, and pressing up the streams to distant head waters, there pitched their camp. . . .
- 1909  They all to some extent cultivate the soil, varying their farm operations by hunting, trapping, and freighting.
- 1926  A brigade might include several hundred carts, one freighter being in charge of three carts. Sixteen to eighteen shillings per hundred pounds was paid for freighting.
- 1942  He had a freighting ship, a Fairchild, splendid for Northern travel and the only plane of its type in the whole eastern Arctic.