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freightage|ˈfreɪtɪdʒ|
[f. freight v. + -age.]
1. a. The hire of a vessel for the transport of goods; cost of conveyance of goods (originally, by water; now exended, esp. in U.S., to land-transit).
1694tr. Milton's Lett. State July an. 1656 Wks. 1851 VIII. 349 A Sum of Money owing..upon the account of Freightage and Demorage. 1785J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navig. 32 The tonnage, freightage, and tolls, will produce as follow. 1819Shelley Let. to Peacock 21 Sept., It costs, with all duties and freightage, about half. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 189/1 The defendants..offered him a steamer called the Glendevon..at the rate of 30s. freightage. 1885L'pool Daily Post 23 Oct. 4/8 The higher scale of freightage [by railroad] will be maintained.
b. The freighting or hiring of a vessel.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 282 If a Ship be intirely freighted for a full Cargo..In case the Owner was not informed of the above-mentioned full Freightage.
2. a. That with which a vessel is freighted; freight, cargo; quantity of cargo conveyed.
1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 61/1 The immense increase of their [Danes'] freightage during the wars of this country. 1843I. F. Romer Rhone, etc. I. 309 The largest vessels can ride at anchor in safety, and unload their freightage close to the very houses. 1860Russell Diary India I. ii. 11 English ships laden with full freightage of gallant soldiers. 1885Harper's Mag. LXXI. 199 Coal as an up freightage is fully as important as the down cargo of grain.
b. transf. Burden, load.
1823Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) II. xxix. 282 The wretched freightage of the Atlantic wave. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 601 The Diligence..discharged its whole freightage into the street.
c. fig.
1827M. Howitt Two Voy. i, My ship waits but for me..And all I lack of freightage now is a farewell word from thee. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xii. (1878) 77 Conscience was beginning to inhabit him, and he carried some of the freightage known to men; though in so crude a form that it overweighed him, now on this side, now on that.
3. Transport of goods.
1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It xvii. 137 High freights and bewildering distances of freightage. 1886Harper's Mag. LXXII 216 All travel and freightage are still, as of old, conducted by means of horses, asses, camels and mules. |