[f. LIGHT sb.2 + -AGE.]
† 1. A toll paid by a ship coming to a port where there is a lighthouse. Obs.
1606. Charter, in Brand, Hist. Newcastle (1789), II. 701. Two … Light Houses att the North Sheiles … and for lights to be kept in them … an ancient … duetie called Lightage … of every English shipp … 4d.
1789. Brand, ibid., II. 714, note. Lightage, six-pence for an English vessel.
2. Provision of (artificial) light.
1862. Edin. Rev., Jan., 184. On the whole there exists a tolerably efficient system of lightage, buoyage, and beaconage.
