gunnagen.
/ˈɡʌnɪdʒ/ a. The money distributed among the captors of a ship, assigned in proportion to the number of guns on the captured ship. ? Obsolete.
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gunnage1703
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1703 London Gaz. No. 3959/3 He will..pay..their just Proportion due to each of them for Gunnage and Tunnage of the said Ship.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4186/8 The Officers and Companies of Her Majesty's Ship Orford will..be paid their Proportion of Gunnage and Tunnage of the Ship Hazardous, a French Man of War.
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b. ‘The number of guns in a ship-of-war’ (Ogilvie 1855).
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