cranage
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English cranage, from crane + -age.
Noun
editcranage (countable and uncountable, plural cranages)
- The use of a crane to hoist goods.
- 1738, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business:
- If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House , there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.
- 2020 November 18, Industry Insider, “Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68:
- On the short sea route there was continued demand for non-containerised traffic, and a trans-shipment depot was established by an independent haulier at Stranraer in 1979, with overhead cranage to handle steel products from Teesside that justified running a daily Speedlink service from north east England.
- Fees paid for use of the crane.
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editNoun
editcranage (uncountable)
Descendants
edit- English: cranage
References
edit- “crānāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.
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