单词 | riverage |
释义 | † riveragen. Obsolete. 1. A toll for travelling on a river; = rivage n. 3. ΚΠ 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Zzv Rivagium, Rivage, Riverage, a Toll or Duty paid to the King in some Rivers, for the passage of Boats or Vessels. 1767 Considerations Dearness Corn & Provisions 28 One quarter of the toll for riverage, which the present barges now pay. 1823 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 1 551 The question..was, whether the proprietors of the navigation were rateable, except upon the amount of the riverage arising from goods landed within the parish. 1876 Law Times 26 Feb. 843/2 Plaintiffs are empowered to take from every person conveying goods upon the said river between Maidstone and Forest-row,..such rates and duties for lockage and riverage as plaintiffs should think fit. 2. A stretch of riverbank, esp. with facilities for mooring and loading (or unloading) boats. Cf. rivage n. 1. ΚΠ 1749 London Gaz. No. 8876/2 (advt.) A Farm-house and Lands,..with the Riverage or Pennings for Barges. 1802 Times 2 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) The Riverage, Fishery, Aytes, and Ozier Grounds let on lease to Mr. Lawrence Welch. 1859 Eclectic Rev. Sept. 323/1 St. Louis..commands the riverage of the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1701 |
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