Boatage

Quick meaning: Boatage is a noun meaning (uncountable) Conveyance, chiefly of goods, by boat.

Meaning

(uncountable) Conveyance, chiefly of goods, by boat.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A charge for transporting goods or people by boat; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) The total capacity of a number of boats, especially of lifeboats on a ship.
3. (uncountable, obsolete) Boats collectively.

Example Sentences

Passengers by Steam on the Quarter Deck, and in the Best Cabin, Boatages to and from the Vessel included.

Droict de Rivage. Shorage, or Boatage; the Cuſtome, or Toll for vvine, or other vvares, put vpon, or brought from, the vvater, by boats.

For the Tovvn of Perith in Cumberland, he [William Strickland] cut a paſſage vvith great Art, Induſtry, and Expence, from the Tovvn into the river Petterill for the conveiance of Boatage into the Iriſh ſea.

The Titanic’s boatage and flotation equipment were also well above minimum requirements. She carried 3,560 life belts; 48 life buoys; 14 30-foot lifeboats; 2 emergency cutters; and 4 Englehardt collapsible rafts.

Word Forms

• boatages

Synonyms for boatage

Depending on context, synonyms include fraught, shippage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boatbuilding, deckload, yards, tankage, bareboating, houseboat.

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