a place assigned to a vessel for anchoring or tying up
2.
a charge made for the occupancy of such a place
Word origin
[1880–85; berth + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, barnstorm, impressionism, interface, pari-mutuel-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)