primage

Definitions

1. A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
   countable, rare, uncountable
3. An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
   UK, archaic, countable, uncountable
4. An additional import duty levied by customs.
   Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“By the bill of lading the maſter undertakes to deliver⟳ the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accuſtomed.”

“1932, E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932, The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.”

“Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage; all others exhibit a slight superheat.”

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