Middle English Dictionary Entry
wharfāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wharfāǧe n. Also wharffage, wharvage, warfeage, querfage. |
| Etymology | Prob. AL wharvāgium, w(h)arfāgium, hwervāgium, wherfāgium; also cp. ME wharf n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The use of a wharf for loading, unloading, or stowing goods;
(b) the monetary payment for the use of a wharf, wharfage dues.
Associated quotations
a
- (1376) RParl.2.351a : Ore sont ils constreintz de paier pur Mesonage de chescune Sarp’ ob. Et un autre ob. pur Querfage, encontre la dite Ordinance.
- (1427-8) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)167 : Item, Flaundrissh bryke with Wharuage, Freight, and cariage: Summa x li. v s. ix d.
- (a1468) Stonor Suppl.8 : For warfeage of a case of Sprot, ob.
- (1469-71) Stonor1.106 : For c and vj li. of Iren, iiij s. v d.; for the wharfage, j d.; for bringyng of the seid stuffe to Derteford, vj d.
b
- (1463) Dower Pekham in Archaeol.74 (Gldh Hustings Roll 196(10))157 : The thridde part of a Sege sette vpon the seid Wharff…with the thridde parte of all maner Wharffage, Cranage, and other proffites whiche shall come, grow, or be taken of the same grounde called the Wharff and Crane.