lastage

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noun

A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.

OriginLatin lastagium →
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Meanings

nounlastage (countable and uncountable, plural lastages)

plural lastages

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableA duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableA tax on wares sold by the last.

    The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.

    1759, Annual Register[?]
  3. countableobsoleteuncountableThe lading of a ship; ballast.

    All maner of shyppes[…]shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones.

    1543, Act 21, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by Richard II of England
  4. countableobsoleteuncountableRoom for stowing goods, as in a ship.

Origin

  1. Latinlastagium
  2. Englishlastage

From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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

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