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单词 lowage
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lowagen.

Brit. /ˈləʊɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈloʊɪdʒ/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s 1800s– lowage, 1500s lowaige.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French lowage , louage ; low v.2, -age suffix.
Etymology: Either < Anglo-Norman lowage and Middle French louage, louaige hiring, rent (1253 in Old French; < louer to hire, engage (a person) in return for payment (c1100), to rent (property, an object) (c1165) < classical Latin locāre locate v.), or < low v.2 + -age suffix, with allusion to the lowering of cargo into the ship's hold.
Now historical.
A duty paid to the local Trinity House society on goods brought into the port of Hull (cf. primage n.1 2). Also more widely: a customary payment to the master and crew of a ship for loading and taking care of the cargo (cf. primage n.1 1). Frequently in collocation with stowage.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
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measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
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wharf-gelt1505
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soundage1562
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rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
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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
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flag-dues1892
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1457 in T. Allen Hist. County York (1831) (modernized text) III. iv. 101 An house of alms.., to be sustained and charitably relieved with lowage and stowage, that is to say all profits in money that shall hereafter grow, or be taken of every ship of the said port of Hull.
1531 Charterparty in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Admiralty (1894) 37 All stowage lowaige wyndage pety lodmanage and averages acustomyd shalbe taken.
1581 Patent Roll, 23 Eliz. 1 Feb. (P.R.O.: C66/1199) m. 38 Had or taken in the same porte of Hull in or by the waye of lodemage [sic] or lowage primage or stowage that is to saie three pence of and for euery Tonne of wyne oyle ffishe..broughte and layde at shore or otherwise discharged.
1831 R. V. Barnewell & J. L. Adolphus Rep. Cases Court of King's Bench (1832) II. 49 Any custom for primage as theretofore had been received or taken in the same port of Hull, in or by the way of lodenage or lowage, primage or stowage; that is to say, 3d. for every ton of wine, oil, fish.
1846 W. Ringrose & C. L. Ringrose Let. 10 Dec. in Opinions on Harbour Conservancy Bill 73 in Parl. Papers LXI. 149 They [sc. Hull Trinity House] demand a ton ‘lowage or stowage’, and say 3d. is due for iron, steel, coals, &c., as lowage, but the stowage ton is forty cubic feet, and they charge us—[list follows].
1998 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 21 Dec. 8 Funds were raised in the early days by means of lowage and stowage, which referred to extra payments made to seamen for unloading and loading cargo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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