Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Freight age.
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- noun dated
Shipment of goods. - noun dated Charge for
shipment .
Etymologies
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ship + -age, with doubled ‘p’ to clarify pronunciation.
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Examples
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Much joy in Mudville yesterday, as the powers of shippage delivered my copy to the door.
The Green Leopard and Other Plagues Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Yet, in the rolling and wash of battle, it had sufficed, at the time, to produce a shippage of water sufficient to produce listing.
Guardsman Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1981
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The cutting and shippage would be articles of some little consequence!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Bananas from TJ’s are pretty cheap, but they’re shipped in from I-know-not-where and I don’t pay a cent for that shippage.
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