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noun
A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
An additional import duty levied by customs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
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noun
Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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History
From Late Latin primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)
Etymology tree English prime Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English primage From prime + -age.
