housage

English

Etymology

house +‎ -age

Noun

housage (countable and uncountable, plural housages)

(obsolete or historical) A fee for storing goods in a house.
- 1841 May 10, Francis Twemlow, Report on Sunday Trading on Canals […] :
  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

References

“housage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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