groundage

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English

Etymology

From ground +‎ -age.

Noun

groundage (countable and uncountable, plural groundages)

  1. (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

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