housage

English

Etymology

From house +‎ -age.

Noun

housage (countable and uncountable, plural housages)

1. (obsolete or historical) A fee for storing goods in a house.
   • 1841 May 10, Francis Twemlow, Report on Sunday Trading on Canals […] :

     Warehouses were landed at the Wharfs and Warehouses of private Individuals, and that that was attended with the Loss to the Company of so much Wharfage and Housage

References

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