单词 | lightage |
释义 | lightagen. 1. A toll levied for the repair and maintenance of lighthouses and other lights for navigation, paid by a vessel entering a port. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun] lastinglOE lastage1205 anchorage1405 strandage1419 plankage1424 quayage1440 lowage1457 measurage1460 perch money1466 perching1483 keel-toll?1499 wharf-gelt1505 sand-gelt1527 wharfage1535 soundage1562 towage1562 groundage1567 bankage1587 rowage1589 shore-silver1589 pilotage1591 dayage1592 ballastage1594 rivage1598 pieragec1599 shore-mail1603 lightage1606 shorage1611 port charge1638 light money1663 port due1663 water-bailage1669 mensuragea1676 mooragea1676 keelage1679 shore-due1692 harbour-due1718 lockage1722 magazinage1736 jettage?1737 light duty1752 tide-duty1769 port duty1776 dockage1788 light due1793 canalage1812 posting-dues1838 warpage1863 winch1864 postage1868 flag-dues1892 berthage1893 shore-levy- 1606 Mariners' Charter in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) II. 700 Two..Light Houses att the North Sheiles..and for lights to be kept in them..an ancient..duetie called Lightage..of every English shipp..4d. 1655 R. Gardiner Englands Grievance Discovered 113 For other duties, as Tunage and Poundage, Customes, Lightage, otherwise called Beaconage. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 714 (note) Lightage, six-pence for an English vessel. 1857 Minutes Evid. & Proc. Liverpool & Birkenhead Dock Bills 201 There is a regular account kept of the buoyage and lightage paid by all vessels not using the Liverpool Docks. 1951 S. Gilmour Ports 100/1 Lightage, in addition, 6d. per ft. of draft. 2. Provision of (artificial) light; esp. the provision of lighthouses and other lights for navigation; lighting, illumination. ΚΠ 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 582 You usually pay people in forein parts for your Anchorage in their Harbours, for your Pilotage into them, for boyage in the Seas, and lightage upon land. 1841 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 57 297 The lightage and buoyage of the Danish seas should be provided for by dues, separate and apart from the Christianople sound tolls. 1860 M. Dods Early Lett. (1910) 158 The room was comfortable enough, but taught me to appreciate the free air..and the fine lightage of the bigger room outside. 1862 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 184 On the whole there exists a tolerably efficient and adequate system of lightage, buoyage, and beaconage, upon our coasts. 1988 D. L. Williams Sea Traffic Managem. vi. 76/2 The lightage services are financed from light dues levied on vessels entering ports. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1606 |
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