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lowage

lowage noun: a charge on shipping.

Noun

lowage (countable and uncountable, plural lowages)

  1. (archaic) A charge on shipping.
    • […] granted and assigned all their loadenage or lowage, and stowage, now called primage, dues, inward or outward of the said port […]1840, The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. : "Kingston-Upon-Hull" - 'Trinity House Guild', p.575

Forms of lowage

plurallowages

Origin of lowage

Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).

Questions about lowage

What does lowage mean?
Lowage means a charge on shipping.
What part of speech is lowage?
Lowage is a noun.
What is the plural of lowage?
The plural of lowage is lowages.

Words near lowage in the dictionary

  1. low-wines
  2. low-wing
  3. low-wire
  4. low-wires
  5. lowable
  6. lowage
  7. lowages
  8. lowan
  9. Lowana
  10. Lowanna
  11. lowans

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