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Definition of Lastage
1. n. A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
Definition of Lastage
1. Noun. (obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lastage
1. the lading of a ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lastage
Literary usage of Lastage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"These are four in number (a) lastage on exports, and on imports, ... (a) lastage.
Some half dozen meanings of lastage have been collected ..."
2. Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third by Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike (1896)
"... have lastage,' been a toll levied according to the measure of goods by "Slf^ _
... lastage ..."
3. Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II by Herbert H. Kaplan (1995)
"8 lastage & Ro. 4.75 tonnage toward cleansing & Repairing the Narva harbour, a
Russian Ship ... lastage and the lull Ro. 4.75 cop. toward the Narva Harbour; ..."
4. Reports of Cases Principally on Practice and Pleading, Determined in the by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Joseph Chitty, William Henry Ashurst, William Murray Mansfield (1823)
"... widows, and orphans, had from time to time received good relief from the hands
of the said master, wardens, and assistants, out of the lastage and ..."
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