groundage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
groundage (countable and uncountable, plural groundages)
- (nautical) A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
- 1826, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries:
- For every vessel with salt fish, for groundage eight pence per day
References[edit]
- “groundage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.