ballastage

English

Etymology

ballast +‎ -age

Noun

ballastage (countable and uncountable, plural ballastages)

1. A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbour.
   • 1759, Annual Register[?]:

     The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.

Coordinate terms

• (fee for anchoring): anchorage, cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ballastage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

From ballaster +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ballastage m (plural ballastages)

1. ballasting

Further reading

• “ballastage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.