单词 | ferriage |
释义 | ferriagen. 1. The fare paid for transportation by ferry. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > fare > by ship > by ferry ferriage1440 ferrying1887 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 156 Feryage, feriagium. ?1573 Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 455 Journeying, ferriage, carriage..&c. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Fletadór One that payeth ferriage, or passage money. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. i. 80 Tollage, Pontage, Caiage, Cranage, Ferriage, Boonage, &c. 1658 Court Rec. 11 Mar. in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1850) I. 310 Each Trooper listed..is only freed from the ferridge going to Springfeild Towne. 1735 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 22 An Act for ascertaining the Rates of Ferriages to be taken at divers Ferries. 1761 B. Franklin Let. 23 Apr. in Wks. (1887) III. 145 They were by law to receive no ferriage of him. 1807 Salmagundi 24 Feb. 61 Ferryage nine-pence. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 194 Settling ferriage with the..Lord of the Ferry. 1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 58 Hold on! You did not pay your ferriage. 1954 F. M. Garrett Atlanta & Environs I. viii. lvi. 950 He landed in Brooklyn, so poor that he had to borrow two cents with which to pay his ferryage. 2006 T. Downey Planting Capitalist South ii. 49 A charter..which stipulated very specific rates of ferriage. 2. The action or business of transporting a person or thing by ferry; (as a count noun) a crossing by ferry. Also: the boat or boats used to make a ferry crossing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying ferry1393 ferriagec1450 ferrying1641 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 265 (MED) Besyde a watir þere myche folk perysschedyn for defaute of feryage & of helpe. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1143 (MED) The feriage be take away fro flodis, The briggis on the ryverys to breke, And passagis with falling tymbour steke. 1463–4 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 241 To pay ffor my ladyis fferyage att the ffery. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxx. 606 We be knyghtes, that requere..feriage for oure horse at this foorde. 1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome v. i, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1383 Varro affirmeth that it [sc. a hill] was so called of a ferriage: For..this mount was divided from the rest, and from the citie by certaine lakes and the Tyber, whereupon, they that would goe to it, used to ferrie over in small punts or whirries. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xcv The right of the Ferriage over all Rivers between the first Bridges and the Sea is a Perquisite of Admiralty. 1736 G. Webb Office & Authority of Justice of Peace 153 If any other Person takes Fee or Reward for Ferriage over any River, whereon a lawful Ferry is kept, he forfeits 5l. for every Offence. 1794 T. Cooper Some Information Amer. iv. 108 Ferriage for man and horse 16d. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xii. 86 This Indian mode of ferriage. 1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 268 We were detained..waiting ferriage. 1911 Railroad Operating Costs (Suffern & Son) iii. 24 Train ferriage across these straits, a matter of a hundred miles, is neither practical nor economical. a1976 J. D. Unruh Plains Across (1979) 478 Tiffany's company refrained from dumping all their surplus supplies at Fort Laramie because they wanted to retain enough to pay for their ferriage over the North Platte. 1997 J. Wake Kleinwort, Benson i. 21 The right of ferriage in Westmorland was a prized and jealously guarded privilege. 2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Apr. t3 They had covered an additional 15 miles, including a ferriage across Goose Creek. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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