lastage

From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).

lastage (countable and uncountable, plural lastages)

1. (obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
2. (obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last.
   • 1759, Annual Register[?]:

     The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.

3. (obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast.
   • 1543, Act 21, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by Richard II of England:

     All maner of shyppes […] shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones.

4. (obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

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

• agelast, algates, tag sale

lastage oblique singular, m (oblique plural lastages, nominative singular lastages, nominative plural lastage)

1. cargo (of a watercraft)

   Que toutes maneres de niefs audit port accustumez de venir hors Engleterre […] portent oveques eux tout lour lastage

   All manners of ship at the aforementioned port were used to going outside of England […] carried with them all their cargo

2. dock where loading occurs
3. lastage (taxation)

• Middle French: lastage
  • French: lestage