▪ I. lastage
(ˈlɑːstɪdʒ, ˈlæst-)
Also 4–5, 8 lestage, 7 lastidge.
[a. AF. and F. lestage (med.L. lestagium), f. lest = last n.2]
1. A toll payable by traders attending fairs and markets. Obs. exc. Hist.
| [1290 Rolls of Parlt. I. 60/1 Thomas de Hamull' recepit lestagium..de omnibus Mercandisis. 1292 Britton i. xx. §1 De pleder en sa court pletz de vee de naam, ou de aver lestage, ou amerciement de ses tenauntz.] 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 97 Lestage, custom i-chalanged in chepynges and in feyres. 1502 Arnolde Chron. (1811) 17 That alle the citezens of London be quyt off toll and lastage. 1616 Bullokar, Lastage, a terme in the common law, which signifieth to be quite of a certaine payment in faires and markets, for carrying of things where a man will. |
† 2. The ballast of a ship. Obs.
| [1397–8 Act 21 Rich. II, c. 18 Toutz maneres dez Niefs au dit porte..portent ovesq eux tout lour lastage des bones piers covenables pur lestuffure de les Beeknes susditz.] c 1440 Promp. Parv. 299/1 Lestage of a shyppe, saburra. 1543 tr. Act 21 Rich. II, c. 18 All maner of shyppes..shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones. 1736 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 11, Săburra..Ballast, or lastage. |
3. A payment for liberty to load a ship; a port duty levied at so much per ‘last’.
| 1592 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 70 [the various heads under which dues were claimed are set forth as follows:—] Daiage; Lastage; Wharfage [etc.]. 1603 Owen Pembrokeshire (1891) 164 Anchorage, lastage, and balast. 1706 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 21 Free from all Toll, Passage, Lastage. 1759 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 97/2 The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames. 1789 Brand Hist. Newcastle II. 714 Lastage is three-pence per last [of goods on board ships piloted]. 1865 C. R. Manning in Norfolk Archæology VII. 4 Sir William Gerberge was possessed of a moiety of the lastage at Yarmouth. |
4. An impost levied on the catch of herrings at so much per last.
| 1601 J. Keymor Dutch Fish. (1664) 4 There was paid above 300000l. 14 years past..for Exizes, Licences, Wastage, and Lastage. 1641 S. Smith Herring Buss Trade 2 In the Lastidge where the nets are haild in. |
5. = tonnage. Cf. last n.2 2.
| 1858 Merc. Marine Mag. V. 247 The Tonnage or Lastage of Ships. |
† 6. Garbage, rubbish. Obs. rare—0.
| 1691 Blount Law Dict., Lastage, was also used for Garbage, Rubbidge, or such like Filth. |
7. Comb. lastage-free a., free of lastage (sense 3).
| 1395 in Rolls Parlt. V. 405/1 Quod sint Wrecfry & Witefry, Lestagefry & Lunatofry. |
▪ II. † lastage, v. Obs.
[f. the n.]
trans. To supply with lastage or ballast.
| 1552 Huloet, Lastaged or balased, saburratus. 1599 Minsheu Sp. Dict., To lastage, or balasse, lastrar. |