water carriagen.

1516 Churchwardens' Accts. St Margaret's, Westminster in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 8 Item, paid the 27th day of May..for 24 ton of barnestone, with the..water carraige from St. Katryn Port to the King's Bridge.

1536 MS Rawl. D. 780 f. 74 For the water carriage of xj loodes iiij fote of the sayd tymbre.

1548–9 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 39 For the water caryage of hangynges ffrom the blake ffryers to the courte at westminster.

1652 H. Robinson Certain Proposalls Peoples Freedome & Accomm. 8 Their People..can afford all sorts of Manufactures, and Artificers work, so much cheaper as is the difference betweene Land and Water carriage.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) i. 10 Conveniencies for Shipping and Water-Carriage.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 4 b The easy bringing in..of Necessaries, both by Land Carriage and Water Carriage.

1790 W. Dyde Hist. & Antiq. Tewkesbury vii. 107 An act passed for the better regulating the navigation of the river Avon, and for ascertaining the rates of water-carriage upon the said river.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. ix. 205 The Maes..traversing the city in various directions, offered to every quarter the commercial facilities of water-carriage.

c1875 F. Nightingale in Contemp. Rev. (1914) Apr. 514 Is not water-carriage generally the cheapest, the working expenses being so exceedingly small?

1923 Harvard Law Rev. 36 436 Some commodities on the other hand are not suited to water carriage.

1976 T. S. Willan Inland Trade i. 25 Many types of goods were carried by water, but..water carriage was especially important for bulky commodities.

2011 H. Sadjady in R. Z. Farahani et al. Logistics Operations & Managem. ii. 16 The average speed of water carriage is less than rail transport.

1853 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 12 Aug. 463/1 The solids which are caught are but a tithe of the original, which, passing along a line of pipes, jostled by the scrubbing-brushes and hearth-stones, and other matters partaking of this water-carriage, become mixed with the water before reaching their destination.

1876 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 June 728/1 Mr. Richard Monson asked..if he considered it a better plan to store sewage at every dwelling than to remove it directly by means of water-carriage.

1876 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 June 728/1 It was impossible at the present moment to say whether the old prevailing system in this country was better or worse than the water-carriage system.

1924 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Feb. 250/2 His contention that earth burial, properly conducted, is not only as safe as water carriage, but far safer.

2011 D. F. Tilley Aerobic Wastewater Treatm. Processes i. 6 The water carriage system had the effect of polluting drinking water sources and inevitably led to widespread outbreaks of plague and disease.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xviii. 35/1 The next [river] is Hierus or Yere, passing from Norwich to Yarmouth, where it receiueth the Bure comming from Aylsham, both of them of great seruice for water carriages.

1662 Act 14 Chas. II c. 20 322 in Public Gen. Acts The Owners of which said Ships, Hoyes, Lighters, Boats, or other Water-Carriage aforesaid..shall receive for the hire of every such..Vessel per Tun, according to the Rates usually paid by Merchants.

1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 215 The most brittle Water-carriage was used among the Ægyptians, who, as Strabo saith, would sail sometimes in Boats made of Earthen-ware.

1797 W. J. Alldridge Universal Merchant 124 The disadvantage (if any) resulting from the decrease of land carriages is nearly counterbalanced by the making of boats, barges and other water-carriages.

1815 Acts Gen. Assembly Commonw. Pennsylvania 181 The same is hereby declared a public highway, for the passage of rafts, boats and other water carriage.

1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. iii. viii. 257 This uncommon mode of travel which is absolutely different from that by any other water-carriage.

1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 228 Ptolomy Philadelphus..open'd the Water-carriage from Alexandria to the Indies, by establishing Staples on the Canals of the Nile.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §25 The timber, by its remoteness from water carriage, is of small value.

1808 B. P. Capper Topographical Dict. at Dublin The grand canal and floating dock..form a water carriage from St. George's Channel..into the river Shannon.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxix. 594 The great object of my journey being to secure water carriage.

1893 D. J. Rankin Zambesi Basin xii. 205 There is naturally nothing which tends so rapidly and effectually to develop commerce and civilisation as that offered by good water-carriage.

1921 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 69 105/1 Land at great distance from a railway or water carriage.

2005 T. C. Smout et al. Hist. Native Woodlands Scotl., 1500–1920 (2007) xiii. 358 Already they had cut more than half the pine, in breach of contract, and what was left was the most remote from water carriage.