canalagen.
/kəˈnalɪdʒ/, U.S. /kəˈnælɪdʒ/ Chiefly North American. Now rare.† 1.
a. A charge or toll for the conveyance of goods by canal. Obsolete.
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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-
1812 W. Maclure European Jrnl. (1988) 21 May 558 A company has made a canal..for which they have five sous for every two hundred pounds which passes: an immense canalage.
1830 Rep. Superior Court New-Hampsh. 4 537 Sawing and canalage of 85091 feet of lumber at 15s.
1901 Rudder Apr. 197/2 No canalage is charged on any of these waterways.
1920 Southern Reporter 82 353 The case of Olcott v. Banfill..was an action in assumpsit by plaintiff for ‘toll’ and ‘canalage’, etc.
b. The distance travelled by canal. Obsolete.
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1837 Jrnl. House of Representatives Wisconsin 1836–7 (2nd Sess.: Legislative Assembly) 74 Shortening the canalage by shipping goods by way of Oswego through Lake Ontario.
1890 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 22 394 Grain for New York could be loaded into barges at Montreal.., saving hundreds of miles of canalage.
2. Canals collectively; canal construction, canal work.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > constructing canals
canalling1772
canalization1825
canalage1854
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 Apr. 211 This extensive system of canalage.
1860 Morning Chron. 8 Mar. 4/4 Merchants and traders who line the busy course of canalage from the Mersey to the London Docks.
1939 Syracuse (N.Y.) Jrnl. 20 Mar. 4 d/4 The ‘great canal law’ of 1825 ordered the survey of 17..water routes, involving 1,200 miles of canalage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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