primage
The English word “primage” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
- An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
- An additional import duty levied by customs.
- Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
Etymology
From Late Latin primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “primage” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.