groundage

English

Etymology

From ground +‎ -age.

Noun

groundage (countable and uncountable, plural groundages)

1. (nautical) A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
   • 1826, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries:

     For every vessel with salt fish, for groundage eight pence per day

References

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