† rowagen.
Obsolete.
1. A charge or duty levied for rowing.
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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-
1589 Baillie Court Bk. St. Andrews & Deerness 30 Sept. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Pey to the said Magnus for the fraucht..with half towage and half rowage vseit & wont.
c1638 Tractatus Legum Navalium 64 The mariners and company are frie of all pilotage, cabarage, towage, rowage.
1696 in Sc. Hist. Rev. 18 254 [The skipper was to receive £18 Scots] together also with towadge and rowadge and pittie pillitage and other dewties.
1788 Act for enlarging & improving Harbour of Leith (28 Geo. III, c. 58) 19 Five Pence for Rowage, Bulkage, and Prime Gilt.
1826 Edinb. Advertiser 29 Dec. 827/4 There are shore dues,..dock dues, entry dues,..bulliage, rowage, and an endless variety of unintelligible terms.
2. Provision or equipment for rowing.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun]
rowage1717
oarage1739
1717 N. Brady tr. Virgil Æneis v. 20 Such seem'd the Rowage [L. remigio] of the lagging Ship.
1831 E. Smedley Sketches Venetian Hist. I. i. 39 Stripping the entire fleet of its equipments, he ordered the rowage, masts, sails, and rudders to be borne with him to the camp.
1865 J. Earle Two of Saxon Chron. Parallel 313 The rowage and steerage were not so distinct as now. The steering was done by oar over the ship's side.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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