wharfage
(ˈhwɔːfɪdʒ)
Also [3 wheruagium, 4 querfage, werphagium], 5, 8 wharffage, 6 warfeage, 8 warf(f)age.
[f. wharf n.1 + -age.]
1. The provision of or accommodation at a wharf; the stowage of goods on, or loading or unloading at, a wharf.
| [1295 Memoranda K. R. 23 & 24 Edw. I (P.R.O.), In cariagio dicte lane..vsque London..cum wharuagio et portagio eiusdem. 1376 Rolls of Parlt. II. 351/1 Ore sont ils constreintz de paier pur Messuage de chescune Sarp' ob. Et un autre ob. pur Querfage. 1395 Compotus Will. Chert custodis collegii Cantuar. Oxon. (1881) 28 Item pro werphagio eiusdem (meremii capelle) iijs. iiijd.] 1469–71 Stonor Papers (Camden) I. 106 Paid..for C and vj li. of Iren, iiij.s. v.d, for the wharfage, j d., for bringyng of the seid stuffe to Derteford, vj.d. a 1552 Leland Itin. (1768) II. 29 There is great Warfeage of Timbre and fier Wood on the West Ende of the Bridge. c 1640 J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 341 Renting out the Toll or profit of the wharfage. 1687–8 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 545 Expences for sawing, carriage, and wharfage of Cedar. 1795 J. Phillips Hist. Inland Nav. Addenda 109 For wharfage exceeding six months, to make a reasonable recompence. 1848 Mill Pol. Econ. iii. v. §3 The rents of wharfage, dock and harbour room. 1885 Law Times LXXIX. 189/2 Duties for defraying the expenses of pilotage, wharfage, lighthouses, and lights and buoys. |
2. The charge or dues exacted for the use of a wharf.
| 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §23 Lordes Marches..shall have within..their said Lordeshipps..wreke de mere, wharfage and customes of Strangers. 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 135 All marchants..may come into our kingdome..with⁓out paying wharfage, pontage, or pannage. c 1683 Citizens Loss in Somers Tracts (1748) I. 180 Wharfage, with Power to distrain for the same. 1715 Lond. Gaz. No. 5387/3 The Wharfage, Duties, and Profits arising..by and out of Billingsgate-Dock. 1795 J. Phillips Hist. Inland Nav. Addenda 105 Wharfage for more than twenty-four hours, to be a reasonable allowance. 1894 Times 25 Aug. 5/4 The company is gradually issuing through rates, inclusive of Ship Canal toll and wharfage. |
3. Wharfs collectively; wharf accommodation.
| 1807 Ann. Reg., Chron. 406 The company assembled on the insular wharfage. 1836 Jesse Angler's Rambles 295 The little secluded harbour, with its small planked wharfage. 1848 Mill Pol. Econ. i. i. §4 The wharfage or harbour-room. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 9/1 At the terminus of the railway the Dominion Government is erecting complete wharfages to make the harbour suitable for oil vessels. |
4. attrib.
| 1714 Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (S.H.S.) 30 For warfage porters carts to the Lodging etc., 1. 9. 1... For warfage bale and cariing to the Lodgine, 0. 2. 6. 1862 G. T. Lloyd 33 Yrs. Tasmania xvi. 415 Wharfage accommodation. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Wharfage dues, the dues for landing or shipping goods at a wharf; customs charges in particular... Wharfage charges are demanded even from a ship of war! |