lastage

English

Etymology

From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).

Noun

lastage (countable and uncountable, plural lastages)

1. (obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
2. (obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last.
   • 1759, Annual Register[?]:

     The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.

3. (obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast.
   • 1543, Act 21, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by Richard II of England:

     All maner of shyppes […] shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones.

4. (obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lastage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• agelast, algates, tag sale

Old French

Noun

lastage oblique singular, m (oblique plural lastages, nominative singular lastages, nominative plural lastage)

1. cargo (of a watercraft)

   Que toutes maneres de niefs audit port accustumez de venir hors Engleterre […] portent oveques eux tout lour lastage

   All manners of ship at the aforementioned port were used to going outside of England […] carried with them all their cargo

2. dock where loading occurs
3. lastage (taxation)

Descendants

• Middle French: lastage
  • French: lestage