Dunnage

Quick meaning: Dunnage is a noun meaning A charge levied for materials or equipment left on site.

Meaning

A charge levied for materials or equipment left on site.

More Meanings

1. Personal effects; baggage.
2. (chiefly transport) Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet.

Example Sentences

The fact that the bakery was paying dunnage on the loaded car until May 25th and that it was not unloaded until after May 21, 1959, is proof that […]

The robot cameras and software direct the robots to unload the 40-pound parts from pallets (called "dunnage") and place them on brackets fixed to a conveyor.

consortium of companies dedicated to finding a faster and less expensive way to produce dunnages. Dunnages are material handling parts used to hold bumpers and fenders in place when they are shipped or used in Ford's production

The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.

Word Forms

• dunnages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dunsail, demurrage, dunger, dumpage, dunsel, dumper.

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