wagonage

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English

Etymology

From wagon +‎ -age.

Noun

wagonage (countable and uncountable, plural wagonages)

  1. A fee paid for transportation by wagon.
  2. A collection of wagons; wagons generally.
    • 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC:
      wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wagonage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)