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lighterage

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Definitions

  1. the transportation of goods on a lighter

Word origin

From lighter + -age.

Used in a sentence

  • If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House, there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.
  • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 355, He has certainly organized the lighterage service of the harbor for the O.S.N. Company with great ability.
  • Moreover, as the traffic would be mainly morning and evening rush-hour services, at other times of the day much lighterage across the river could be saved by using part of the new terminus for freight trafic.

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