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单词 lightage
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lightagen.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈlaɪdɪdʒ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: light n.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < light n.1 + -age suffix. With sense 2 compare earlier lighting n.2
1. A toll levied for the repair and maintenance of lighthouses and other lights for navigation, paid by a vessel entering a port. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
lastinglOE
lastage1205
anchorage1405
strandage1419
plankage1424
quayage1440
lowage1457
measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
keel-toll?1499
wharf-gelt1505
sand-gelt1527
wharfage1535
soundage1562
towage1562
groundage1567
bankage1587
rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
dayage1592
ballastage1594
rivage1598
pieragec1599
shore-mail1603
lightage1606
shorage1611
port charge1638
light money1663
port due1663
water-bailage1669
mensuragea1676
mooragea1676
keelage1679
shore-due1692
harbour-due1718
lockage1722
magazinage1736
jettage?1737
light duty1752
tide-duty1769
port duty1776
dockage1788
light due1793
canalage1812
posting-dues1838
warpage1863
winch1864
postage1868
flag-dues1892
berthage1893
shore-levy-
1606 Mariners' Charter in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) II. 700 Two..Light Houses att the North Sheiles..and for lights to be kept in them..an ancient..duetie called Lightage..of every English shipp..4d.
1655 R. Gardiner Englands Grievance Discovered 113 For other duties, as Tunage and Poundage, Customes, Lightage, otherwise called Beaconage.
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 714 (note) Lightage, six-pence for an English vessel.
1857 Minutes Evid. & Proc. Liverpool & Birkenhead Dock Bills 201 There is a regular account kept of the buoyage and lightage paid by all vessels not using the Liverpool Docks.
1951 S. Gilmour Ports 100/1 Lightage, in addition, 6d. per ft. of draft.
2. Provision of (artificial) light; esp. the provision of lighthouses and other lights for navigation; lighting, illumination.
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1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 582 You usually pay people in forein parts for your Anchorage in their Harbours, for your Pilotage into them, for boyage in the Seas, and lightage upon land.
1841 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 57 297 The lightage and buoyage of the Danish seas should be provided for by dues, separate and apart from the Christianople sound tolls.
1860 M. Dods Early Lett. (1910) 158 The room was comfortable enough, but taught me to appreciate the free air..and the fine lightage of the bigger room outside.
1862 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 184 On the whole there exists a tolerably efficient and adequate system of lightage, buoyage, and beaconage, upon our coasts.
1988 D. L. Williams Sea Traffic Managem. vi. 76/2 The lightage services are financed from light dues levied on vessels entering ports.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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