lastage

English

Etymology

From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).

Noun

lastage (countable and uncountable, plural lastages)

  1. (obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
  2. (obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last.
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  3. (obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spelman to this entry?)
  4. (obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

Old French

Noun

lastage m (oblique plural lastages, nominative singular lastages, nominative plural lastage)

  1. cargo (of a watercraft)
    • Que toutes maneres de niefs audit port accustumez de venir hors Engleterre […] portent oveques eux tout lour lastage
      All manners of ship at the aforementioned port were used to going outside of England […] carried with them all their cargo
  2. dock where loading occurs
  3. lastage (taxation)

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