Crossword-Solution: LIGHTERAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lighterage | n. | The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. |
| Lighterage | n. | The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “LIGHTERAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unloading charge for ships. | 1 answer |
| a fee for carrying cargo by lighter | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
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in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with LIGHTERAGE (5)
The augmentation of the establishment, with its crowds of clerks, an office in town, the old office in the harbour, the division into departments--passenger, cargo, lighterage, and so on--secured a greater leisure for his last years in the regenerated Sulaco, the capital of the Occidental Republic.
Dainopoulos had deftly inserted an item in the _charte partie_ which gave him a generous allowance for lighterage.
Simpson lightered eleven hundred tons; and the last departure, the Edwin Reed, getting off on a winter rain-flood, scraped over the shoals with all but two hundred and eighty tons of her load, the lightest lighterage of a wooden vessel for many months.
The report has gone forth that to reach Portland a ship must be dragged up a hundred miles or more of river over four bad bars, and at the shipping season lighterage at enormous cost is necessary.
The earliest shipping-port of Glasgow was Irvine in Ayrshire, but lighterage was tedious and land carriage costly, and in 1658 the civic authorities endeavoured to purchase a site for a spacious harbour at Dumbarton.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).