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bunkerage

noun

Etymology

From bunker + -age.

  1. borrowed from Bunker
  2. derived from *bʰenǵʰ-✻ — “thick”
  3. derived from *bunkô✻ — “a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”
  4. derived from bunki — “a heap”
  5. derived from bunker
  6. derived from bunker — “bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”
  7. suffixed as bunkerage — “bunker + age”

Definitions

  1. The act of bunkering (loading a vessel with oil or coal)

    • These agencies had been largely engaged in supplying coal for the bunkers of vessels sailing for foreign ports and had accumulated a considerable fund by reason of the fact that the bunkerage premium had been collected on all such coal

  2. Oil or coal used for the engine of a vessel

    • 18 October 2017, Italy busts gang smuggling Zawia diesel to Sicily in Libya Herald Gazzettinonline reported that the smuggled diesel was in fact low grade and normally used as bunkerage for ships.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA