"lowage" meaning in All languages combined

See lowage on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: lowages [plural]
Etymology: Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978). Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} lowage (countable and uncountable, plural lowages)
  1. (archaic) A charge on shipping. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-lowage-en-noun-OUw0VQQ6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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