demorage

English

Noun

demorage (countable and uncountable, plural demorages)

  1. Obsolete form of demurrage.
    • Samuel Pepys
      This day, Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate, a little small state dish, he expecting that I should get him some allowance for demorage of his ship William, kept long at Tangier, which I shall, and may justly do.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 demorage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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