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boatage|ˈbəʊtɪdʒ| [f. as prec. + -age.] 1. Carriage by boat; a charge or customs paid on such carriage.
1611Cotgr., Droict de Rivage, shorage, or boatage; the custome, or toll for wine, or other wares, put vpon, or brought from, the water, by boats. 1810J. T. in Risdon's Surv. Devon Introd. 31 Sixpence a ton per mile, even if we include the boatage. 1861Olmsted Cotton Kingd. I. 17 Longhaulage and boatage to market. †2. Boats and similar craft collectively. Obs.
1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 304 He cut a passage.. in the river Petteril, for the conveyance of boatage into the Irish Sea. |