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groundages

groundages is the plural of groundage.

Meaning of groundage

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

Questions about groundages

What is groundages the plural of?
Groundages is the plural of groundage.

Words near groundages in the dictionary

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

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