Meanings of tunnage in English

For instance, tunnage and poundage were appropriated for naval defenses.

Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished.

The difficulty, which the commodore principally apprehended, related to the duty usually paid by all ships in the river of Canton, according to their tunnage.

Mr Tunnage said although he was happy at the lodge, there was little else on offer.