lestage

From Middle French, from Old French lastage (“ballast”), from Medieval Latin lestagium (“tax imposed on a ship's lading”), from Old English hlæst (“load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastą, *hlastuz (“load, burden”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”). Cognate with Old High German hlast, hlesti (“load”) (German Last). More at lade.

• IPA^(key): /lɛs.taʒ/

lestage m (plural lestages)

1. (nautical) ballasting

• lest
• lester

• “lestage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gelâtes