boatage
noun/ˈbəʊtɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˈboʊtɪd͡ʒ/US
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).
Definitions
Conveyance, chiefly of goods, by boat.
A charge for transporting goods or people by boat
A charge for transporting goods or people by boat; (countable) an instance of this.
- Droict de Rivage. Shorage, or Boatage; the Cuſtome, or Toll for vvine, or other vvares, put vpon, or brought from, the vvater, by boats.
- Passengers by Steam on the Quarter Deck, and in the Best Cabin, Boatages to and from the Vessel included.
The total capacity of a number of boats, especially of lifeboats on a ship.
- 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.
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Boats collectively.
- 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.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA