Groundage

2 definitions found

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

  groundage \ground"age\ (ground"[asl]j), n.
     A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it
     occupies while in port. --Bouvier.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  GROUNDAGE, mar. law. The consideration paid for standing a ship in a port. 
  Jacobs, Dict. h. t., Vide Demurrage.