cargo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.

   The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.

2. 2
   noun

   Western material goods.

   The principal change was that two of the 'satans', Kilibob and Manup, were now identified by different groups as God and Jesus Christ, as cargo deities. This expressed the return to hostility towards Europeans and a reassessment of native rights to the cargo.

3. 3
   noun

   goods carried by a large vehicle

4. 4
   verb

   To load with freight.

5. 5
   name

   A surname.

6. 6
   name

   A village in Kingmoor parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).

7. 7
   name

   A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.