lowage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A charge on shipping.

Word forms

lowage lowages

Etymology

Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).

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