Towage

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Towage \Tow"age\, n. [From {Tow}, v..cf. F. touage.]
     1. The act of towing.
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     2. The price paid for towing.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  towage
       n : the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a
           hitch or rope; "the truck gave him a tow to the garage"
           [syn: {tow}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "towage":
     admission, admission fee, anchorage, attraction, brokerage,
     carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, cover charge, demand, dockage,
     draft, drawing, drayage, dues, entrance fee, exaction, exactment,
     extraction, fare, fee, haulage, hauling, heaving, hire,
     license fee, pilotage, portage, pull, pulling, pulling power,
     salvage, scot, scot and lot, shot, storage, toll, towing, traction,
     tractive power, tug-of-war, tugging, wharfage
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TOWAGE, contracts. That which is given for towing ships in rivers. Guidon de 
  la Mer, ch. 16; Poth. Des Avaries, n. 147; 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16.