| 单词 | waterage money |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaterage money Conveyance or transportation by water. Also: a fare charged or paid for this (also more fully waterage money). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] shipping1483 water carriage1516 wafting1559 waftage1606 shippage1611 reshipping1617 transwaftage1624 waterage1677 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > carriage of goods, etc. > by ship fraughtage1442 waterage1677 1677 Minutes Hudson's Bay Co. (1945) I. 313 Paid waterage and provisions for the men left on board. 1688 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 378 To Mr. Ince for Coach-hire, Waterage, Porterage, and other petty Expences. 1703 in Jrnl. Derbyshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1881) 3 45 Payd for carrage Wateridge & Porter to helpe into ye vessells with the Marble. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house v. 280 Pays for..waterage abroad. 1829 Examiner 282/1 The carriage and waterage was paid at the coach-office, and, on the parcel arriving on board, the waterage-money..was charged again. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Waterage, the charge for using shore-boats. 1913 Proc. Inst. Munic. & County Engineers 39 296 The excavated material was sent to sea in hoppers carrying 240 tons each, the cost of waterage being from 6d. to 7½d. per ton. 1938 E. E. Hoon Organization Eng. Customs Syst. iii. 93 They were granted allowances..for the provision of their clerks and messengers, for coals and candles, waterage, coach hire and chamber rent. < as lemmas |
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