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▪ I. dunnage, n. Naut.|ˈdʌnɪdʒ|
[In 17th c. dynnage, dinnage: origin unascertained.
Cf. Du. dun, LG. dün thin, dünne twige brushwood.]
1. Light material, as brushwood, mats, and the like, stowed among and beneath the cargo of a vessel to keep it from injury by chafing or wet; any lighter or less valuable articles of the cargo used for the same purpose.
1497Naval Accts. Hen. VII (1896) 251 For xxxvj shegge Shevys layed alow in John Millers crayer for donage. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland 75 Mats and dynnage vnder the Salt, and Salt Shouels. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 101 To take Care of the requisite Dunnage and Bavins at the Bottom. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix. 98 We covered the bottom of the hold..with dried brush, for dunnage. 1863Reade Hard Cash I. 198 He had stowed his dunnage, many hundred bundles of light flexible canes from Sumatra and Malacca.
attrib.c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 116 Dunnage battens, pieces of oak or fir, about two inches square, nailed athwart the flat of the orlop, to prevent wet from damaging the cables, and to admit air. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 73 Dunnage wood 26d. per 100 pieces. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dunnage gratings, express gratings placed on a steamer's deck to place cargo upon, serving as dunnage. 1893Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 4/2 They store there the dunnage mats used for the cargo. Mod. When guano was shipped in bulk at the Chincha Islands, the hold was lined with guano in bags, called dunnage-bags, to protect the rest and for better packing; so with various other commodities.
¶ Loosely used for miscellaneous baggage; slang, a sailor's or tramp's clothes.
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. (1861) I. 262. 1873 Slang Dict., Dunnage, baggage, clothes. 1885C. A. Neidé Cruise of Aurora 105 (Cent.) Some of the dunnage and the tent would need to be dried before being packed. 1887Pall Mall G. 9 Apr. 2/1 The other dunnage was a curious mixture of odds and ends, such as a sextant, a little mahogany sea chest, strings of candles, bread bags, rusty scissors, knives, forks, and spoons.
2. dunnage bag, a kit-bag.
1904Chicago Evening Post 23 Aug. 7 A dunnage bag..is a sack of heavy brown canvas nearly four feet long... In it the aspiring mountaineer may pack fifty pounds of necessities. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 86 Dunnage bag, kit bag (Navy). 1929M. de la Roche Whiteoaks xxviii. 381 The dogs..trotted without rest from point to point of interest—the dunnage bag, the provisions, the weapons.
▪ II. ˈdunnage, v. Naut.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To stow or secure with dunnage. Also intr. for refl.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 63 Dunnage as high as the kelson..to prevent water getting to the casks. 1865J. Lees Laws Brit. Shipping (ed. 9) 190 The vessel must also be properly dunnaged in the bottom and at the sides of the hold, in order to raise up the loading. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., A vessel dunnages below the dry cargo to keep it from bilge-water. 1884American VIII. 382 Vessels fraudulently ‘dunnaged’ for the purpose of reducing their tonnage. |