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Webster 1913 Edition
Lastage
Last′age
Noun.
1.
A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
[Obs.]
2.
A tax on wares sold by the last.
[Obs.]
Cowell.
3.
The lading of a ship; also, ballast.
Spelman.
4.
Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lastage
L'ASTAGE
,Noun.
1.
A duty paid for freight or transportation.[Not used in the United States.]
2.
Ballast. [Not used.]3.
The lading of a ship. [Not used.]Definition 2025
lastage
lastage
English
Noun
lastage (plural lastages)
- (obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
- (obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
- (obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spelman to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.
Old French
Noun
lastage m (oblique plural lastages, nominative singular lastages, nominative plural lastage)
- cargo (of a watercraft)
- Que toutes maneres de niefs audit port accustumez de venir hors Engleterre […] portent oveques eux tout lour lastage
- All manners of ship at the aforementioned port were used to going outside of England […] carried with them all their cargo
- Que toutes maneres de niefs audit port accustumez de venir hors Engleterre […] portent oveques eux tout lour lastage
- dock where loading occurs
- lastage (taxation)
Descendants
- French: lestage