primage
A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
Noun archaic, countable
- A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
- By the bill of lading the maſter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accuſtomed. - 1818, John Adolphus, The Political State of the British Empire, volume 3, page 197:
- 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.
- 1932, E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932, The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.
Origin
From Late Latin primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)
Forms
Noun engineering, natural sciences
- Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
- Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage; all others exhibit a slight superheat. - 1883, Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management, page 75:
Origin
Etymology tree English prime Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English primage From prime + -age.