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groundage

groundage noun: a local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.

Noun

groundage (countable and uncountable, plural groundages)

  1. A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
    • For every vessel with salt fish, for groundage eight pence per day1826, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries

groundage meaning in Tamil and Kannada

groundage in Tamil

நங்கூரக்கட்டணம்

groundage in Kannada

ನೆಲಸುಂಕ, ಬಂದರು ಸುಂಕ

Forms of groundage

pluralgroundages

Origin of groundage

From ground + -age.

Questions about groundage

What does groundage mean?
Groundage means a local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
What is groundage in Tamil?
Groundage in Tamil is நங்கூரக்கட்டணம். See Groundage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is groundage?
Groundage is a noun.
What is the plural of groundage?
The plural of groundage is groundages.

Words near groundage in the dictionary

  1. ground-work
  2. ground-works
  3. ground-zero
  4. ground-zeroes
  5. groundable
  6. groundage
  7. groundages
  8. groundapple
  9. groundapples
  10. groundation
  11. groundations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: groundage (page history and authors); groundage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); groundage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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