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Prisage vs Primage - What's the difference?

prisage | primage |

As nouns the difference between prisage and primage

is that prisage is (legal|uk|obsolete) a right belonging to the crown of england, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast while primage is (archaic) a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship or primage can be (engineering|rare) droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).

prisage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal, UK, obsolete) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (obsolete) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

    • See also

    * butlerage (Webster 1913)

    primage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
  • * 1818 , , The Political State of the British Empire , Volume 3, page 197,
    • By the bill of lading the ma?ter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accu?tomed.
  • (archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne) .
  • (Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
  • * 1932 , E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932 ,
    • The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
  • * 1883 , Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management , page 75,
    • Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.

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