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lastage en · NOUN

Etymology

From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A tax on wares sold by the last.
   • The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames. 1759, Annual Register[?]:
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The lading of a ship; ballast.
   • All maner of shyppes[…]shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones. 1543, Act 21, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by Richard II of England:
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

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