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fardage

fardage noun: scrap material, used to fill space and/or prevent goods from moving about during transport.

Noun

fardage (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Scrap material, used to fill space and/or prevent goods from moving about during transport
    • The next morning at sun rising, Cortez departed with his Army in good order, and in the midst of them went the Fardage and Artillerie1648, Thomas Gage, A New Survey of the West-Indies
    Synonyms:
    dunnage

Synonyms of fardage

Origin of fardage

Borrowed from French fardage. See fardel.

Questions about fardage

What does fardage mean?
Fardage means scrap material, used to fill space and/or prevent goods from moving about during transport.
What part of speech is fardage?
Fardage is a noun.

Words near fardage in the dictionary

  1. farcy bud
  2. farcy buds
  3. farcy-bud
  4. farcy-buds
  5. fard
  6. fardage
  7. farded
  8. fardel
  9. fardel-bound
  10. fardelled
  11. fardelling

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