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▪ I. lastage|ˈlɑːstɪdʒ, ˈlæst-|
Also 4–5, 8 lestage, 7 lastidge.
[a. AF. and F. lestage (med.L. lestagium), f. lest = last n.2]
1. A toll payable by traders attending fairs and markets. Obs. exc. Hist.
[1290Rolls of Parlt. I. 60/1 Thomas de Hamull' recepit lestagium..de omnibus Mercandisis. 1292Britton i. xx. §1 De pleder en sa court pletz de vee de naam, ou de aver lestage, ou amerciement de ses tenauntz.] 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 97 Lestage, custom i-chalanged in chepynges and in feyres. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 17 That alle the citezens of London be quyt off toll and lastage. 1616Bullokar, Lastage, a terme in the common law, which signifieth to be quite of a certaine payment in faires and markets, for carrying of things where a man will.
†2. The ballast of a ship. Obs.
[1397–8Act 21 Rich. II, c. 18 Toutz maneres dez Niefs au dit porte..portent ovesq eux tout lour lastage des bones piers covenables pur lestuffure de les Beeknes susditz.] c1440Promp. Parv. 299/1 Lestage of a shyppe, saburra. 1543tr. Act 21 Rich. II, c. 18 All maner of shyppes..shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 11, Săburra..Ballast, or lastage.
3. A payment for liberty to load a ship; a port duty levied at so much per ‘last’.
1592in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 70 [the various heads under which dues were claimed are set forth as follows:—] Daiage; Lastage; Wharfage [etc.]. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1891) 164 Anchorage, lastage, and balast. 1706in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 21 Free from all Toll, Passage, Lastage. 1759Chron. in Ann. Reg. 97/2 The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames. 1789Brand Hist. Newcastle II. 714 Lastage is three-pence per last [of goods on board ships piloted]. 1865C. R. Manning in Norfolk Archæology VII. 4 Sir William Gerberge was possessed of a moiety of the lastage at Yarmouth.
4. An impost levied on the catch of herrings at so much per last.
1601J. Keymor Dutch Fish. (1664) 4 There was paid above 300000l. 14 years past..for Exizes, Licences, Wastage, and Lastage. 1641S. Smith Herring Buss Trade 2 In the Lastidge where the nets are haild in.
5. = tonnage. Cf. last n.2 2.
1858Merc. Marine Mag. V. 247 The Tonnage or Lastage of Ships.
†6. Garbage, rubbish. Obs. rare—0.
1691Blount Law Dict., Lastage, was also used for Garbage, Rubbidge, or such like Filth.
7. Comb. lastage-free a., free of lastage (sense 3).
1395in Rolls Parlt. V. 405/1 Quod sint Wrecfry & Witefry, Lestagefry & Lunatofry.
▪ II. † lastage, v. Obs.
[f. the n.]
trans. To supply with lastage or ballast.
1552Huloet, Lastaged or balased, saburratus. 1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., To lastage, or balasse, lastrar. |