| 单词 |
ferriage |
| 释义 |
ferriage|ˈfɛrɪɪdʒ|
Also 5 fery-, feriage, 6 ferrage, 9 ferryage.
[f. ferry n. and v. + -age.]
1. The action or business of ferrying a person or thing over a stream or other water; conveyance over a ferry.
c1450Merlin 606 We requere feriage for oure horse at this forde. 1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. 241 To pay ffor my ladyis fferyage att the ffery. 1678–96in Phillips. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xcv, The right of the Ferriage over all Rivers between the first Bridges and the Sea is a Perquisite of Admiralty. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xii, This Indian mode of ferriage. 1880I. L. Bird Japan II. 268 We were detained..waiting ferriage.
2. The fare or price paid for the use of a ferry.
c1440Promp. Parv. 156/2 Feryage, feriagium. 1573Abp. Parker Let. in Corr. (1858) 455 Journeying, ferriage, carriage..&c. 1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Fletadór, one that payeth ferriage, or passage money. 1735Col. Rec. Pennsylv. IV. 22 An Act for ascertaining the Rates of Ferriages to be taken at divers Ferries. 1761Franklin Let. Wks. 1887 III. 145 They were by law to receive no ferriage of him. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 58 Ferryage nine-pence. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 194 Settling ferriage with the..Lord of the Ferry. |
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