boatage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Conveyance, chiefly of goods, by boat.
2. isim A charge for transporting goods or people by boat; (countable) an instance of this.

   “Droict de Rivage. Shorage, or Boatage; the Cuſtome, or Toll for vvine, or other vvares, put vpon, or brought from, the vvater, by boats.”

3. isim The total capacity of a number of boats, especially of lifeboats on a ship.

   “The Titanic’s boatage and flotation equipment were also well above minimum requirements. She carried 3,560 life belts; 48 life buoys; 14 30-foot lifeboats; 2 emergency cutters; and 4 Englehardt collapsible rafts.”

4. isim Boats collectively.

   “For the Tovvn of Perith in Cumberland, he [William Strickland] cut a paſſage vvith great Art, Induſtry, and Expence, from the Tovvn into the river Petterill for the conveiance of Boatage into the Iriſh ſea.”