Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FARE, n.

1. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due, for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river, called also ferriage; the fare for conveyance in a coach; stage-fare. The price of conveyance over the ocean is now usually called the passage, or passage money. Fare is never used for the price of conveying goods; this is called freight or transportation.
2. Food; provisions of the table. We lived on coarse fare; or, we had delicious fare.
3. The person conveyed in a vehicle. [Not in use in the United States.] Drummond.