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Definition of Lighterage
1. Noun. The fee charged for carrying goods in lighters.
2. Noun. The transportation of goods on a lighter.
Derivative terms: Lighter
Definition of Lighterage
1. n. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
Definition of Lighterage
1. Noun. The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. ¹
2. Noun. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lighterage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lighterage
Literary usage of Lighterage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port of Boston: A Study and a Solution of the Traffic and Operating by Edwin Jones Clapp (1916)
"The advantages of a universal lighterage interchange with all rail carriers should
be similarly offered to all coastwise lines. ..."
2. The Freight Traffic Red Book by Traffic Publishing Co (1922)
"ta lighterage of less than carload Freight which is "lighterage Free" in carloads
14 Minimum Charge on less than Carload Freight U Part of a Carload for ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... of lighterage—eafe port. The cost of lightering a vessel's cargo to the
discharging berth designated by the assigns of the charterers under the ..."
4. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"Rock Milling & Elevator Co. т. Atchison, T. & SF Ry. Co. (Kans. 1916) 154 Рас.
254. I* (4) lighterage See lighterage (i) Complainants attacked the carrier's ..."
5. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the by United States Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States 57th Congress, 1st session, 1901-1902. House. [from old catalog] (1902)
"Will you state what the lighterage charges are in New York on a carload of grain
... The lighterage charge is distinct entirely from an elevator charge. ..."
6. Insurance, Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Henry James Loman (1922)
"LXXXVII lighterage CLAUSE To cover the risk of lighterage to or from the vessel—each
craft or lighter to be considered as if separately insured. ..."
7. The Traffic Field: Comprising The Industrial Traffic Department by John William Cobey, Brunner Robeson, James P. Haynes, John H. Kane, Norman De Forest Chaplin, La Salle Extension University (1920)
"lighterage is the delivery of property from railroad piers to the navigation
company's piers or docks by barges, and the charge therefor. ..."
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