robbery; esp., an embezzling of property on shipboard
2.
the property embezzled
plunderage in American English
(ˈplʌndərɪdʒ)
noun
1.
act of plundering; pillage
2. Law
a.
the embezzlement of goods on board a ship
b.
the goods embezzled
Word origin
[1790–1800; plunder + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cutout, echelon, methodology, silhouette, stereotype-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)