cargo
Definitions
noun
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
"[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]"
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.
In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.
verb
To load with freight.
name
A surname.
A village in Kingmoor parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).
A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.