"lowage" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lowages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "lowage (countable and uncountable, plural lowages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1840, The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. : \"Kingston-Upon-Hull\" - 'Trinity House Guild', p.575:",
          "text": "[…] granted and assigned all their loadenage or lowage, and stowage, now called primage, dues, inward or outward of the said port […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charge on shipping."
      ],
      "id": "en-lowage-en-noun-OUw0VQQ6",
      "links": [
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "shipping",
          "shipping"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A charge on shipping."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lowage"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lowages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "lowage (countable and uncountable, plural lowages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1840, The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. : \"Kingston-Upon-Hull\" - 'Trinity House Guild', p.575:",
          "text": "[…] granted and assigned all their loadenage or lowage, and stowage, now called primage, dues, inward or outward of the said port […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charge on shipping."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "shipping",
          "shipping"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A charge on shipping."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lowage"
}