Weighage

2 definitions found

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

  Weighage \Weigh"age\ (?; 48), n.
     A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. --Bouvier.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  WEIGHAGE, mer. law. In the English law it is a duty or toll paid for 
  weighing merchandise; it is called tronage, (q.v.) for weighing wool at the 
  king's beam, or pesage, for weighing other avoirdupois goods. 2 Chit. Com: 
  Law, 16.