lastage
nounEtymology From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).
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Obsolete A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
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Obsolete A tax on wares sold by the last.
- The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.1759, Annual Register[?]:
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Obsolete 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:
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Obsolete Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.