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Definition of Dunnage
1. n. Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
Definition of Dunnage
1. Noun. (chiefly transport) Material, often wood, most commonly used to fill spaces to prevent items from shifting during shipment. ¹
2. Noun. Personal effects; baggage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dunnage
1. packing material used to protect cargo [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunnage
Literary usage of Dunnage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It is submitted that, in legal construction under such a warranty, dunnage is
not lading or cargo; although vendible and usually sold at the end of the ..."
2. The Contract of Affreightment as Expressed in Charter-parties and Bills of by Thomas Edward Scrutton (1893)
"dunnage is the name given to the provision made in stowage to protect goods, by
the use of various articles, from damage by contact with the bottom or sides ..."
3. Wharf Management, Stevedoring and Storage by Roy Samuel MacElwee, Thomas Rothwell Taylor (1921)
"dunnage.—In stowing almost any kind of cargo, dunnage and goods for broken stowage
... "dunnage" consists of material used to protect the goods against any ..."
4. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1915)
"(a) Failure to allow 500 Ibs. for dunnage on shipments of automobiles from San
... And since the substitution of dunnage for the more expensive boxes and ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States by Stephen Keyes Williams, Edwin Burritt Smith, Ernest Hitchcock (1884)
"The question still recurs, however, whether merchandise used for the purpose of
ballasting a ship, or for the purpose of dunnage, and paying freight as ..."
6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"... of certain articles of foreign manufacture and production entered at the ports
of Boston and New York : dunnage MATS. Treasury Department, March 31, ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1888)
"Many kinds of cargo require no dunnage whatever. They are composed of articles
which will not be injured by water, nor by contact with each other. ..."
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