fardage
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French fardage. See fardel.
Noun edit
fardage (uncountable)
- (nautical, archaic) Scrap material, used to fill space and/or prevent goods from moving about during transport
- Synonym: dunnage
- 1648, Thomas Gage, A New Survey of the West-Indies:
- The next morning at sun rising, Cortez departed with his Army in good order, and in the midst of them went the Fardage and Artillerie
References edit
- “fardage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.