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pilotage|ˈpaɪlətɪdʒ|
[a. F. pilotage (1540 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. piloter: see prec. and -age.]
1. a. The action or practice of piloting; the function or office of a pilot; pilotship.
compulsory pilotage, compulsory employment of a pilot within certain limits, according to local law.
a1618Raleigh Apol. 55 Otherwise we must for ever abandon the Indies, and loose all our knowledge, and our Pylotage of that part of the world. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. x. 325 At the other end of this Iland [Innisherkan] (with good pilotage) a ship of two hundred Tunne by day may safely come in. 1656Blount Glossogr., Pilotage or Pilotism, the office or art of a Pilot. 1786–7Bonnycastle Astron. i. 14 They have paid the utmost attention to pilotage. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiv, I shall never save the ship by my own pilotage. 1868Morn. Star 28 Mar., Mr. Candlish did good service..by proposing the abolition of compulsory pilotage. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 13/2 Then came pilotage and the elements of commercial flying. 1924Air Pilot: Gt. Britain ii. iv. 19 (heading) Pilotage Directions. 1932Flight 6 Oct. 949/1 The Air Council have had under consideration the policy regarding training in air pilotage. 1946Happy Landings (Air Ministry) July (verso front cover), The various sciences which together contribute to our present day knowledge of practical pilotage. 1969Daily Mail 16 Jan. 5/6 We had some difficulty on Apollo 8, with ‘pilotage’, that is, trying to plot our path on the map of the back side of the Moon.
b. transf. and fig. (cf. pilot v. 2).
1726S. Sewall Diary 16 May, By the pilotage of the Lt. Governour's Servant..Went the way by Mr. Prescott's Meetinghouse. 1848Dickens Dombey vi, He left the room under the pilotage of Mrs. Chick. 1887Sir R. H. Roberts In the Shires ii. 22 A chosen lot..look to him for pilotage through the line of gates.
2. The cost or charge for piloting; pilotage dues.
1622Malynes Anc. Law Merch. 141 The Merchant like⁓wise doth couenant to pay Pilotage, if a Pilot be vsed to bring the ship into the harbor. 1825Act 6 Geo. IV, c. 125 §38 Every Pilot so taken to Sea..shall, over and above his pilotage, have and receive Ten Shillings and Sixpence per Diem. 1840Marryat Poor Jack xxviii, I've got all my pilotage too, so I'm a rich man.
3. An association, authority, or establishment for supervising a body of pilots.
1881Times 17 Jan. 12/4 If frost persists and ice increases, the pilotage will probably refuse pilots to sailing vessels, unless they are assisted by tugs.
4. attrib., as pilotage certificate, pilotage dues, pilotage signal, etc.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 230 Many Swedish officers of the pilotage establishment declared..in favour of this opinion. 1873in Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iii. (1875) 68 The International Code Pilotage Signal indicated by P.T. 1905Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. 7/2 At the time of the accident the ship was in pilotage waters. |