gunnage
(ˈgʌnɪdʒ)
[f. gun n. + -age.]
a. The money distributed among the captors of a ship, assigned in proportion to the number of guns on the captured ship. ? Obs. b. ‘The number of guns in a ship-of-war’ (Ogilvie 1855).
| 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3959/3 He will..pay..their just Proportion due to each of them for Gunnage and Tunnage of the said Ship. 1705 Ibid. No. 4186/8 The Officers and Companies of Her Majesty's Ship Orford will..be paid their Proportion of Gunnage and Tunnage of the Ship Hazardous, a French Man of War. |