housage

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noun

A fee for storing goods in a house.

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Meanings

nounhousage (countable and uncountable, plural housages)

plural housages

  1. countablehistoricalobsoleteuncountableA fee for storing goods in a house.

    Warehouses were landed at the Wharfs and Warehouses of private Individuals, and that that was attended with the Loss to the Company of so much Wharfage and Housage

    1841 May 10, Francis Twemlow, Report on Sunday Trading on Canals […]

Origin

From house + -age.

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APA

housage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housage

MLA

“housage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “housage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housage.

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