Forms: see LIGHTER sb.1; also 7 lightradge. [f. LIGHTER sb.1 + -AGE.] Transhipment or unloading of cargo by means of a lighter or lighters; the charges made for this.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 370. Item, to Sergeaunt for lyterage vj. d.
1488. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 32. Bote hire lighterage & portage of the same stuff.
1583. Rept. to Ld. Burleigh, in Arb., Garner, I. 46. The lighterage, carriage and porters’ due 0 2 8.
1621. Sir R. Boyle, in Lismore Papers (1886), II. 13. The custome Lyteradg and impoesicons to be all born and defraied by me.
1755. Magens, Insurances, I. 66. Lighterage for the unloading and Demorage.
1798. R. Dodd, Lett. on Port Lond., 14. There will be no necessity for lighterage, shipping, reshipping, &c.
1885. Law Rep. 15 Q. Bench Div. 370. He had ever since done the plaintiffs’ lighterage.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 9 Dec., 12/2. Freight to Odessa, insurance, lighterage, and shipping charges.
