Crossword-Solution: PRIMAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Primage | n. | A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRIMAGE | anagram | EPIGRAM |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PRIMAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Freight fee to ship's owner. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PRIMAGE (5)
Besides their primage they owned shares in their vessels, a thirty-second or so, and presently their settlement at the end of a voyage coastwise amounted to an income of a thousand dollars a month.
Not being paid by the month but by primage on the freight, he was a veritable "driver," and lost no opportunity to urge his vessel ahead, even at the risk of starting a butt, springing a spar, or losing a man.
This tax was called Primage, and raised such an outcry among commercial men that in 1895 it was repealed.
The resultant deficiency in the proceeds of the tax was made up by a continuance of the primage duties and by an increase of the tax on incomes derived from personal exertion.
Henderson amt due him by you 72 12 June 27 " Cash cartge & Lighterage on tobacco 7 50 " Freight & primage— " Do 105 July 28 " your note due this day 787 73 Septr 23 " Mdse 1 doz sans paraitres 24 24 ------- $4804 90 Decr 13 To Balance $924 49 ------- * * * * * Messrs John Audubon & Ferdinand Rozier in Account Current with Benjn Bakewell Crs 1807 Augt.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).