boatagen.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Droict de Rivage, shorage, or boatage; the custome, or toll for wine, or other wares, put vpon, or brought from, the water, by boats.

1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 51 Unlading the Goods, Porters, Wharfage, Lighterage, Boatage, Cellerage, Carmen, &c. or whatever is laid out for the Goods, until they are safe in your Warehouse, or in your Celler.

1720 M. Clare Youth's Introd. Trade & Business 81 To Sledage and Boatage of the said Wine.

1784 J. Byng Diary 15 July in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 169 This bad boatage, over a stream one mile broad is one of the causes of a new London road being open'd thro Llanrwst.

1788 N. van Staphorst & J. van Staphorst Let. 22 May in T. Jefferson Papers (1956) XIII. 186 Boatage and Porterage f 2.10.

1811 J. Taylor Remarks Present State Devon in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) p. xxxi Sixpence a ton per mile, even if we include the boatage.

1861 F. L. Olmsted Journey Cotton Kingdom I. 17 Longhaulage and boatage to market.

1907 Times 2 May 13/2 The steamship companies..formed boatage companies at certain points on the coast to control the transport of cargo between ship and shore.

1942 H. E. Eavenson First Cent. & Quarter Amer. Coal Industry i. vi. 71 The rate of boatage never exceeded three cents per bushel; rate of waggonage was..twelve cents.

2006 R. Southey Music-making in North-east Eng. in 18th Cent. vi. 107 Griffin was paid £200 for building the organ and the rest of the money went towards boatage and porterage.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 137 He cut a passage..in the river Petteril, for the conveyance of boatage into the Irish Sea.