单词 | housage |
释义 | housagen. 1. A fee paid for housing goods or products. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for storage facilities housage1578 cellarage1762 storage1775 warehousing1795 boomage1862 sideage1868 yardage1868 yard-money1884 warehouseage1915 1578 Treasurer's Accts. in J. Webb Town Finances Elizabethan Ipswich (1996) 61 Paid to Arthur Butler for the cranage, porterage and howsage thereof, 11s. vjd. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Housage is a fee that one payes for setting vp any stuffe in a house, either for a Carrier, or at a wharfe, or such like. a1674 O. Bridgeman Rep. Judgments (1823) (modernized text) 323 This duty for hallage (or housage, for so it is), is in consideration of the great charge the city are put into for the housing of that cloth. 1737 in Trans. Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1908) 8 8 Pd for the Carriage of the Bell from Bridgnorth and housage..0..2..6. 1800 Hist. Cirencester (ed. 2) ii. ii. 151 The farmer..brings about half a pint..for a sample, by which..he sells the load... And thus the expenses of porterage and housage are avoided. 1896 Derby Mercury 18 Nov. North Staffordshire Railway... Cartage, housage, rents, &c. 1976 J. S. Kepler Exchange of Christendom 176 Assuming that the rate of the housage duty remained unchanged, this comparison would suggest [etc.]. 2. The state or condition of being housed. Also concrete: property or accommodation consisting of a house or houses; housing. Now rare (in later use humorous). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > storing in specific place cellaring1448 housage1803 warehousing1853 yarding1865 materials handling1932 1661 in A. Perry & C. S. Brigham Early Rec. Portsmouth (Rhode Island) (1901) 387 I will & giue to Sarah mott my wife beinge all my howsage & land..lyinge in ye bounds of portsmoth. 1803 S. T. Coleridge Let. 7 Aug. (1895) I. 430 The former cargo is in safe housage. 1884 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 28 Mar. 457/2 The building up to the same level all the houses in that line, by which at least one-fourth more housage would be supplied. 1899 Dundee Courier & Argus 10 Apr. 4 The Act had done comparatively little for either the sanitation or the housage of Dundee. 1921 Domest. Engin. 97 456/2 Young couples, married during the war and going first to live with the parents of either side, owing to the shortage of housage..now..are seeking homes of their own. 2004 J. Ellroy Destination: Morgue! 271 Tall turrets, big bay windows... Heavy housage for one woman and a randy ridgeback. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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