The act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes.
Landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out.
A fee charged for a vessel to use a dock.
1 It rose above the passenger, as he reached dockage , in a succession of hill terraces.
2 But Jabo had a reputation for using them to prevent captains skipping out on dockage fees.
3 The dockage they get on street grain and on car lots passed through their elevators helps them.
4 The current allowable dockage range is 2 percent to 2.5 percent.
5 Excessive dockage , short weights, depressed prices!
6 Would he pay one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to the line elevator and stand a dockage of one hundred thousand bushels in addition?
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