boatage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊtɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈboʊtɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [-ɾɪd͡ʒ]
Forms: form: boatages
Etymology: From boat + -age (suffix forming nouns denoting an action, process, or result; a charge, fee, or toll; or a sense of appurtenance or collection).
Senses: examples: text: At the verge of the town we had the misert of embarking on board another ferry-boat, the danger and destruction of horses; […] for they are oblig'd to leap out of, and into, deep water. […] This bad boatage, over a stream one mile broad is one of the causes of a new London road being open'd thro Llanwrst, which in a short time will eclipse the old Chester road.
ref: 1784 July 15 (date written), John Byng, “A Tour to North Wales, 1784”, in C. Bruyn Copper, editor, The Torrington Diaries: Containing the Tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later Fifth Viscount Torrington) between the Years 1781 and 1794, volume 1, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, published 1934, →OCLC, page 169:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Conveyance, chiefly of goods, by boat.
examples: text: Droict de Rivage. Shorage, or Boatage; the Cuſtome, or Toll for vvine, or other vvares, put vpon, or brought from, the vvater, by boats.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Droict de Rivage”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature [Ee v], verso, column 1:
text: Passengers by Steam on the Quarter Deck, and in the Best Cabin, Boatages to and from the Vessel included.
ref: 1826, “Voyage Round the Island. [Hire of Vessels, &c.]”, in The Beauties of the Isle of Wight; […], Portsea, Hampshire: […] S. & S. Horsey; sold also by Longman & Co. […], →OCLC, table heading, page 93:
text: The Stockton organ was financed partly by the sale of pews in the newly erected organ gallery and partly by subscription. Around 80 subscribers (including Lord Darlington) subscribed £250 12s.; [Thomas] Griffin was paid £200 for building the organ and the rest of the money went towards boatage and porterage, painting and gilding, and the cost of hiring [John] Garth and the Durham singers to perform at the dedication.
ref: 2006, Roz Southey, “Organs and Psalms”, in Music-making in North-east England during the Eighteenth Century, Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlinton, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part 3 (Music as an Aid to Piety), page 107:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: fraught
shippage
glosses: A charge for transporting goods or people by boat; (countable) an instance of this.
examples: text: The Titanic’s boatage and flotation equipment were also well above minimum requirements. She carried 3,560 life belts; 48 life buoys; 14 30-foot lifeboats; 2 emergency cutters; and 4 Englehardt collapsible rafts.
ref: 1995, George W. Hilton, “Prologue”, in Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The total capacity of a number of boats, especially of lifeboats on a ship.
examples: text: For the Tovvn of Perith in Cumberland, he [William Strickland] cut a paſſage vvith great Art, Induſtry, and Expence, from the Tovvn into the river Petterill for the conveiance of Boatage into the Iriſh ſea.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Westmerland”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 137:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Boats collectively.
Coordinate terms: sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: anchorage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: ballastage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: beaconage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: cartage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: cranage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: demurrage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: lighterage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: moorage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: pilotage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: porterage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: shippage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: shipping
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: shorage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: sledage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: tonnage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: towage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: truckage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: wagonage
sense: charge for transportation by boat
word: wharfage