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Cranage vs Wharfage - What's the difference?

cranage | wharfage |

Cranage is a coordinate term of wharfage.


As nouns the difference between cranage and wharfage

is that cranage is the use of a crane to hoist goods while wharfage is a dock; quay; or pier.

cranage

English

Noun

(-)
  • The use of a crane to hoist goods.
  • Fees paid for use of the crane.

    • Coordinate terms

    * demurrage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

    Anagrams

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    wharfage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A dock; quay; or pier
  • A fee charged for using a wharf.
  • *1895 , John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law , p. 100.
  • *:If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage' then due, he is discharged from liability for future ' wharfage .
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    • Coordinate terms

    * (wharf usage fee) shorage, demurrage, cranage, tonnage, shippage