spoutagen.
/ˈspaʊtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈspaʊdɪdʒ/ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > spout > provision of
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1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 93 Spouteage may more conueniently be made of pipes, brought downe within the middest of the Brick walls.
2. A charge levied for transferring coal from a wharf to a ship via a chute or spout (spout n. 2b). Now historical and rare.
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1803 R. Edington Ess. Coal Trade 15 The coals are..discharged into the ships..by spouts adapted for that purpose. These ship-spouts save the whole keel dues to the captain, who pays only 6d. per chaldron spoutage.
1829 Newcastle Courant 1 Aug. 2/4 When coals are shipped by spout..: Spoutage..£0 0s 3d.
1860 W. Fordyce Hist. Coal 80 Coals are conveyed from the colliery to the river Tyne..and are shipped.., for which a payment is made of 1s. 3d. per chaldron, which includes spoutage and all other transit charges.
1939 Ld. Beveridge et al. Prices & Wages in Eng. 268 For the better quality of coal this tends to be replaced by ‘spoutage’, a charge of 3d. per London chaldron for shooting coal direct from the wharf into the collier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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