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shorage

shorage noun: the right to use a shore, for example to land goods.

Noun

shorage (uncountable)

  1. The right to use a shore, for example to land goods.
    • It is further insisted that there was evidence of an implied contract, inasmuch as it was proved that the defendants had, before that time, paid a bill presented by the plaintiff for shorage for other rafts, before then anchored on the same flats.1867, New Jersey. Supreme Court, New Jersey Law Reports, volume 31, page 20
    • that March 7, 1887, the Browns and Anderson, by warranty deed, conveyed to the Pelican Boom Company, its successors and assigns, "all their shorage, riparian, marginal, and flowage rights and easements […]1890, Wisconsin. Supreme Court, edited by Abram Daniel Smith and Philip Loring Spooner, Wisconsin reports: cases determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, volume 76, page 78
  2. A fee or duty paid for such a right.
    • DROICT DE RIVAGE: Shorage, or Boatage; the Custome, or Toll for wine, or other wares, put vpon, or brought from, the water, by boats1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues
    • The emperors laid a duty upon urine, dust, ordure, dead bodies, smoke, air, &c. There were rights of the turf, the highway, shorage, duties upon carriages, beasts of burden, &c1832, Jean-François Marmontel, Belisarius: A tale

Examples of shorage in a sentence

  • Defendant pleaded recoupment for damage to freight, and for shorage.1890, The New York supplement, volume 7, West Publishing Company, page 134:
  • The cost of getting logs from the stump to the various sawmills, including cutting, hauling, driving, boomage, shorage, tolls, and other expenses, is, on an average, from $8 to $8.50 per 1000 feet.1895, Congressional serial set, United States. Government Printing Office, page 177:
  • the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Water terminal and transfer facilities, page 537:

Origin of shorage

From shore + -age.

Questions about shorage

What does shorage mean?
Shorage means the right to use a shore, for example to land goods.
How do you use shorage in a sentence?
Defendant pleaded recoupment for damage to freight, and for shorage.
What part of speech is shorage?
Shorage is a noun.

Words near shorage in the dictionary

  1. shopworkers
  2. shopworn
  3. shor
  4. Shor's algorithm
  5. SHORAD
  6. shorage
  7. SHORAN
  8. Shoranur
  9. shorb
  10. shorba
  11. shorbs

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