boatage

English

Etymology

Noun

boatage (countable and uncountable, plural boatages)

The total capacity of boats, as of lifeboats on a ship.
Conveyance by boat.
A charge for transporting goods by boat.

Coordinate terms

(fee for boat transport): anchorage, ballastage, beaconage, cartage, cranage, demurrage, moorage, pilotage, porterage, shippage, shorage, sledage, tonnage, towage, wharfage

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for boatage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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