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Tonnage - Sailing(gambling)

tonnage(1) (iou)



tonnage noun. In sense 1 also tunnage. LME.
[In sense 1 from Old French tonnage (Anglo-Latin tonnagium), from tonne TUN noun1; in other senses from TON noun1 + -AGE.]
Hist. A duty or tax of so much per tun levied on wine imported to England in tuns or casks between the 14th and 18th cents. LME.
A charge for the hire of a ship of so much per ton of capacity per week or month. Only in 16.
A charge or duty payable at so much per ton on cargo or freight. E17.
Ships collectively, shipping (considered in respect of carrying capacity, or of weight of cargo carried). E17.
Ships Monthly Recently, cruise operators have been flooding shipyards with orders for new tonnage.
The internal capacity of a ship expressed in tons of 100 cubic feet or 2.83 cubic metres (orig., the number of tun casks of wine which a merchant ship could carry); the size, weight, or capacity of a ship, variously calculated in terms of cubic capacity or weight of water displaced when afloat. Cf. TON noun1 2. E18.
deadweight tonnage the weight of cargo carried by a ship when submerged to a given Plimsoll mark. displacement tonnage the weight of a ship, calculated by the volume of water displaced when afloat. gross tonnage the tonnage of a ship calculated as one-hundredth of its cubic capacity in cubic feet below the upper deck. net tonnage the tonnage of a ship adjusted to allow for space not used for cargo. register tonnage the tonnage of a ship (gross or net) entered on a registration certificate.
R. L. Stevenson A steamship of considerable tonnage.
Weight in tons; loosely (great) weight. L18.
J. Harvey A sunlit tower block, all its iron and concrete tonnage turned to lightness.