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Definition of Stowage
1. Noun. The charge for stowing goods.
2. Noun. A room in which things are stored.
Specialized synonyms: Chandlery, Lumber Room, Buttery, Larder, Pantry, Stock Room, Stockroom, Strongroom
Generic synonyms: Room
3. Noun. The act of packing or storing away.
Definition of Stowage
1. n. The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
Definition of Stowage
1. Noun. A place where things are stowed. ¹
2. Noun. Things that are stowed. ¹
3. Noun. Amount of room for storing things. ¹
4. Noun. A charge for stowing and storage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stowage
1. goods in storage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stowage
Literary usage of Stowage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Law Relating to Shipping and Admiralty: As Determined by the by Robert Desty (1879)
"Рог loss by bad stowage. — The carrier Is liable only for the want of reasonable
care, skill, and diligence in the stowage of the cargo.1 Had stowage only ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"FREIGHT—stowage OF GOODS. In the United States District Court, New York, January
19,1843, Jonathan Crocket, Jr. vs. John H. Brower. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"Hogsheads of sugar on barrels of whiskey would be bad stowage. Captains Drinkwater
and Hopkins, shipmasters, testified that they would stow sugar on whiskey ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1903)
"THE stowage OF THE LARGER CALIBRES OF FIXED AMMUNITION. By MIDSHIPMAN ALFRED G.
HOWE, USN This article is not in any way intended as a suggestion of a new ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"From the nature of stowage, the power of usage over the subject is at least as
... stowage is completely the creature of usage. Hence it is, doubtless, ..."
6. The Contract of Affreightment as Expressed in Charter-parties and Bills of by Thomas Edward Scrutton (1893)
"Where the ship is stowed in a manner that does not make full use of her hold,
but the charterer or his agents saw the stowage and made no objection, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Floyd Russell Mechem (1891)
"General duty as to stowage on vessels. 304 Same subject — stowage under deck.
... Same subject — Rule as to stowage in bold confined to vessels on seas and ..."
8. Wharf Management, Stevedoring and Storage by Roy Samuel MacElwee, Thomas Rothwell Taylor (1921)
"Drawing Up the stowage Plan. — The tally clerks have kept a record of each article
transferred and the foremen know where the articles are placed. ..."
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