ballastage

From ballast +‎ -age.

ballastage (countable and uncountable, plural ballastages)

1. (historical) A toll paid for the taking on ballast in a port or harbour.
   • 1759, Annual Register[?]:

     The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.

• anchorage, ballastmaster, buoyage, cranage, demurrage, lastage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

• “ballastage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From ballaster +‎ -age.

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ballastage m (plural ballastages)

1. ballasting

• “ballastage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.