Naut. Obs. [? f. YARE a. or v. + -AGE.] The power of moving or being managed at sea.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1595), 997. They were light of yarage: armed and furnished with water-men as many as they needed. Ibid., 999. The gallies of the enemies, the which were heauie of yarage, both for their bignes, as also for lacke of watermen to row them.
