freighter• He said Boeing offered a freighterversion of its 747-400 airliner for between $ 165 million and $ 170 million.• Not by the airport and not on a freighter.• An oil tanker, she thought, or perhaps a freighter.• There is a wealth of Coventry-produced aircraft and other exhibits, dominated by the giant Armstrong-Whitworth built Argosy freighter of 1959.• Whiteley, had sighted a convoy of five freightersescorted by three destroyers to the south-west of Pantelleria.• They were merefreighters of doctrine, not questioners, which they unloaded in unquestioned dribs and drabs around their parish.• Waves from a passing freighter rocked the boat, Swensson says, throwing him to the deck.• Only two dozen made it back on to the freighter.