primage
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
- noun An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
- noun An additional import duty levied by customs.
- noun Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
Similar words
prepayment prame prest prog foregift primitia repromission prouision pratic preferment
Often followed by
duty and duties was of on is
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