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Praught vs Fraught - What's the difference?

praught | fraught |

As verbs the difference between praught and fraught

is that praught is (nonstandard) (preach) while fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc).

As a noun fraught is

(obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.

As an adjective fraught is

(of a cargo-carrier) laden.

praught

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (preach)
  • * 1870 Amos Keeter, “The Lovers,” in Vol. 1 No. 27. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10035/10035-h/10035-h.htm]
    • SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught,
    And her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught ;
    Though his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.
  • * 1996-05-22 The Anglican Mailing List [http://memoriam.anglicansonline.org/mamawolf/msg00352.html]
    • [...] I don't remember the earnest soul who praught it [...]
  • * 2000-01-30 Larne Parish Homily Archive [http://www.briantumelty.dnet.co.uk/homily_pubs/B04_Ord_00.htm]
    • They praught in the synagogue every Sabbath, week in, week out.
  • * 2000-11-18' ''CHRIST AND CUPID: a sermon '''praught by Richard Major in the church of St Mark, Florence. [subtitle] [http://www.ascensionandsaintagnes.org/sermonarchive/major/2000/sermon18xi00.htm]
  • * 2002-08-16 The Church of Ireland Gazette Online [http://gazette.ireland.anglican.org/160802/panorama160802.htm]
    • [...] including, by the way, York Minster where in 1999 he praught at the consecration of a new area bishop.
  • * 2004-05 Beautful Feet International Ministries [http://www.bfiministries.org/newsletter.April.May04.htm]
    • So, I ‘praught ’ at this group (median age of late 60’s-70’s J) just like they were teenagers [...]
  • * 2004-06-01 Ian McLeod's Confusticated World [http://ianmcleod.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_ianmcleod_archive.html]
    • Yesterday our new preacher praught a very good lesson, in which he stated [...]
  • * 2005-09-19 Xander: And the Army is disciplined... [http://xander.lifewithchrist.org/permalink/15985]
    • I went to Balga Corps in the morning, then praught at a youth meeting at Morley Corps in the evening.

    Synonyms

    * preached

    fraught

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
  • (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
    • fraught money .
  • (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
  • (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (Scotland) A load; a burden.
  • (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).

    • Derived terms

    * fraught-free

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
  • * 1610 , , by Shakespeare
    • Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a vessel of our country richly fraught
  • Furnished, equipped.
  • Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
  • * South
    • a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
  • * I. Taylor
    • enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
  • * 2005 , .
    • all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
  • Distressed.
    • a fraught relationship
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