Word Meanings - LIGHTERAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.

Related words: (words related to LIGHTERAGE)

• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• LIGHTERAGE
  1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• CONVEYER
  1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak.
• UNLOAD
  1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• CONVEYANCER
  One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• CONVEYOR
  A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
• GOODS
  See 3
• UNLOADER
  One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.
• CONVEY
  conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. 2. To cause to pass from
• LIGHTERMAN
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• LIGHTER
  One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
• CONVEYANCE
  The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. found the conveyances in law
• CONVEYABLE
  Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke.
• PRICED
  Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.
• CONVEYANCING
  The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.
• RECONVEY
  1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
• LAMPLIGHTER
  The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• RECONVEYANCE
  Act of reconveying.
• PLIGHTER
  One who, or that which, plights.
• EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE
  A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.